A hard drive can be used on any type of computer - PC or Mac. But in order. How to format a drive in Mac OS 10.6 to 10.10. Formatting your drive in Windows.

I am trying to reformat an external seagate harddrive for use on my windows 7 running PC. The drive used to be used on a mac so is probably in the wrong format so isn't automatically detected when I plug it into my PC. I can find the drive using Device Manager and it says the drive is working fine, but it doesn't show up on windows explorer or my computer, which is where other tutorials say to reformat from. Any guesses as to how to detect and reformat the drive for use on the PC? (Unfortunately the old mac is now cactus so I cant just reformat from there.) Thanks a lot!

If your Mac is a 2012 or older model, it probably does not support this feature. You can check the wording of the Wake for Network Access checkbox in Energy Saver settings. It will read 'Wake for Wi-Fi Network Access' if your Mac supports this feature. 'Wake on network' doesn't just wake for any network traffic. The standard puts the the machine to sleep while allowing the network card to watch for a specially crafted packet - not just any packet will do. If the correct type of packet is received, the network card will wake the machine. Right - yes the Apple TV should be waking up iTunes on the Mac even without an Apple router. Wake on Demand works by partnering with a Bonjour Sleep Proxy running on your AirPort Base Station, Time Capsule or Apple TV (when no AirPort Base Station or Time Capsule is present on the network). Mac not waking for network access password. But if the OpenELEC machine goes to sleep even if the Mac is busy using its files, it stays asleep. I've had VLC die horribly because the underlying network suddenly isn't there anymore. No amount of mucking about on the Mac seems to be able to get it to wake from a Mac. Windows > Linux will do it; Linux > Linux will do it; Mac > Linux won't do a thing. This information is required for waking the system, so one option for small networks is to make a list of this information for each system so it can be quickly accessed. First ensure the Mac is set up to be woken over the network: Open the Energy Saver system preferences; Check the “Wake for network access” option.

Haha, i had the exact same problem and I came up with a solution. I have an external seagate 2TB USB3 HDD, I used it for my Mac and when I used it on windows, I isn't there and i can't backup but the light was on. This is what you have to do: 1)just search format on the windows search option on start, open the program called 'create or partition hard disk partitions' 2) You will be able to see your drive in this application, right click on the unallocated space and there should be an option called format. 3)It should then format the drive to NTFS. 4)The drive will now appear in the start/computer menu. Hope this helps. P.S, I couldn't format it from my Mac as it only formatted it or wiped it to it's MAC OS Journaled thing.

I am trying to reformat a hard drive from a mac laptop using my windows computer. The mac hard drive has a SMART error. I have tried connecting it through my SATA cable on my PC, but windows won't start because of the SMART error. I can get to BIOS, and have reformatted the hard drive, but was only able to format it for windows compatibility, and if I plug it back into the mac, it still won't let me format it back to windows format.

I plugged the power in to the hard drive on my PC, and tried to plug the SATA in hot, but there is no recognition of it that way. If I can get windows to recognize the hard drive, I will be able to use TransMac to format it.

Is there a easier way or a way I am not considering? Maybe a way to format a hard drive for mac on the windows BIOS? Update: I have found a way in BOIS to not check for SMART, and to allow hot plug on SATA port 2.

However, I am still unable to format it on TransMac.