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Nov 6, 2015 11:05 AM in response to jyh10001by Lexiepex,Questions:
- how is the Seagate formatted?
- did you install any Seagate software that came with it?
- what do you use the Seagate for?
- in ElCapitan, did you do already a "Repair Disk" (FirstAid) on the Seagate?
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Nov 6, 2015 11:56 AM in response to Lexiepexby clairetess,Would performing first aid on the external hard drive in disk utility delete any information that is already on that hard drive? Sorry to interrupt but I have a similar problem. One of my hard drives has become read only and other can only be seen in disk utility. They are both toshiba external hard drives.
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Nov 6, 2015 12:00 PM in response to clairetessby PRC,Greetings
Might try shutting down.
Then restarting while holding down P-R-A-M to reset the PRAM- let it chime twice and see if the drive shows up
on the desktop.
Patrick
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Nov 6, 2015 12:07 PM in response to clairetessby JimmyCMPIT,read only the drive is NTFS
if the mfg makes a ntfs driver you can use that, buy a 3rd party one (paragon or tuxtera) mess with the terminal (I don't suggest this but its possible) or if you don't need the drive for windows, back it up, reformat to mac extended (journaled) and use it to it's fullest on mac.
NFTS drive on a mac only environment is pointless, it's a windows format. TM won't even back it up.
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Nov 6, 2015 1:00 PM in response to clairetessby Lexiepex,Would performing first aid on the external hard drive in disk utility delete any information that is already on that hard drive?
No.