Playing with Seagate’s expansion drive
I was recently gifted Seagate’s expansion drive by my sister. Very timely gift when I’m moving out of Yahoo! and have a few GBs of data to backup 
.. With 320GB capacity, it is serving the purpose well..
However, I had earlier formatted the drive (as NTFS). Windows recommended and promised this is the best option and I believed these guys 
.. And when I plugged the device into Mac, it stripped off my writing privilege and gave just read access.. Ok, left with 2 choices now:
- Reformat the disk using FAT (HFS doesn’t work with Windows and the safest Filesystem for formatting seems to be FAT)
- Use a software to do the writing. I downloaded MacFuse, but I guess the NTFS compatibility pieces are commercial (Did not drill down much here). Let me know your experience with MacFuse.
Took option 1 after backing up the data in disk (There was something about reviving the data post erasing, Didn’t try it out!!). Anyway, now all set for backing up data and I’m currently moving multiple GBs to the disk happily.
I’m praying Amazon gives me a Mac laptop as well (or probably should plan buying one in future).. Love the user experience and flexibility Mac provides!!
