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Seagate Backup Plus Slim For Mac How To Use

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This backup plus drive comes with superb features, backup software, and almost all operating systems compatibility. Seagate Backup Plus Slim Mac/PS4 Review (1TB+2TB+4TB) Seagate Backup Plus Slim 2TB Portable External Hard Drive provides an easy way to protect and backup your precious files.

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  • Backup Plus Slim Portable Drive for Mac USB 3.0 500GB STCF500102 2-year limited warranty. Backup Plus Slim Portable Drive for Mac USB 3.0 1TB STDS1000100 2-year limited warranty. 1TB 1024.0: USB 3.0: 12.1mm: 113.50mm: 76.00mm: Backup Plus portable drive for Mac 4TB STDS4000400.
  • Double click on ‘startheremac'. This is the file to use on a Mac. The Seagate Dashboard will open up. There you can register your Seagate Backup drive. You can watch this 1 minute 52 second video. The video walks you through using startheremac to register your Seagate hard drive for warranty. Toolkit for MacOS – First Time Setup.

Seagate Backup Plus For Mac Instructions


How To Use Seagate Backup Plus

A) you do not need to use any drivers for the disk. You can format the disk for Mac use with the Applications -> Utilities -> Disk Utility.


B) to backup your Mac for the upgrade, format the drive as a Mac OS Extended (Journaled) disk drive. Simple sound editor mac. This will NOT be readable by Windows, but you can reformat for that task after you upgrade.


Use a Mac backup utility to copy your Mac's data to the external disk. Disk Utility -> Restore can be used to copy your entire system to the external disk, just specify the external disk as the destination for the Restore.


Or you can use SuperDuper (free for a full clone, you only pay if you want the incremental and scheduling features). I think there are older versions available for 10.5


Mac to pc convertor. Or Carbon Copy Cloner (free 1 month fully enabled demo). I think there are older versions available for 10.5


C) After you have performed your upgrade and your data is safe, you can choose to blow away the contents of the external disk and reformat it as a Windows exFAT drive that can be read by both Mac and Windows. NOTE: Some Mac file attributes may not transfer, but that would only matter if you were trying to use the exFAT formatted drive as a Mac backup device. But as a file transfer device or a device for storing documents, pictures, movies (data, not programs), then exFAT is OK for that.

How To Use Seagate Backup Plus Slim


Seagate Backup Plus Mac Setup

Seagate backup plus mac setup

If you want to transfer data to Windows first, then just create the exFAT first, transfer your data, then reformat for Mac backup and upgrade.


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Install Seagate Backup Plus Slim

NOTE: you should be able to use file sharing between the Mac and the Windows system for transferring files.





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