And: tried already to remove encryption in recovery mode. Hi, I formatted a (actually two) new Seagate Expansion external 2,5' 4TB USB3.0 harddrive HFS+ journaled encryted via Apples Diskutility. Any ideas anybody?Įdit: Should have added: partitioning using Disk Utility is out of the question: greyed out. Also make sure the drive is MBR and not GPT, if wd formatter cant change that then windows has drive manager which you can change that. Since he did not have a USB 3. A friend found a good deal on a Seagate 3TB external hard drive with USB 3.0 speeds.
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My theory is that those Seagate drives are on some level optimised for Windows, which usually is no problem - as long as one doesnt use encryption, because then some flags are changed and the whole thing gets complicated. You can use say 128kb cluster size on a 2tb hdd but it will make tiny files (like 1kb in size) use up more space but this isnt an issue if you store iso files. Today is the day after Thanksgiving - otherwise known as Black Friday.
Which I found searching Google - I don't have much of a clue concerning Terminal. In the main interface, find out the Seagate external HDD, right-click it and choose Wipe Hard Drive. Run AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional. But now I can't neither removed it, nor can I format the drive. The Seagate Backup Plus Desktop Drive (5TB) is incredibly spacious, reasonably fast, and since it has a class-leading 5 terabytes of storage, it costs only pennies per gigabyte. Connect your Seagate external hard disk drive to a working computer running Windows operating system and ensure that it can be detected by OS.
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For some reason, it didn't work as it was supposed to (SuperDuper backups were stuck after around 40GB of 3,4TB - happened twice), so I thought it might have something to do with the encryption (I added the password to my keychain, but still).
I formatted a (actually two) new Seagate Expansion external 2,5" 4TB USB3.0 harddrive HFS+ journaled encryted via Apples Diskutility.