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How to format a seagate "one touch" external drive with HFS+ on a Mac Pro?

Mac Pro, macOS 10.13

Posted on Jul 30, 2022 2:50 PM

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Posted on Jul 30, 2022 4:07 PM

Select the drive by its immutable manufacturer-given name in disk Utility.

If not shown, use the little drop-down menu to select View: show all devices.

choose GUID partition Map and HFS+ Extended (journaled).

give it a name.

wait a minute and Disk Utility will mount if for you.

now Disk Utility owns it, and the built-in drivers can always access it even to do a restore or in recovery mode.

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