FreeAgent Products

[JohnnyDetroit]

I just purchased a 1TB FreeAgent Pro. I have a DELL XPS Desktop and two Mac Book laptops.

Can I use this thing to back up all of the above?

I installed it first on my DELL and it worked fine.
I than tried to use it on my Mac and it reformatted, etc.
My Mac laptop does not see the Dell files and vice versa.

Is there anyway to use this to back up all the above and be able to share files between the above?

Also, want to take some pictures and store them off an older CPU than is about to get trashed (but want to take the pictures etc off first).

About to lose my mind, so any advice and help would be much appeciated.

Thanks in advance.

[Melonade]

just create 2 partitions, one that's NTFS (in your PC) and one that's Mac and load the files to each one. just be careful because i've seen many times data get corrupted like that, so a backup is essential.   it's just that the windows and mac partitions are not compatible

[maxinegerb]

I have exactly the same question as the original poster.

Can you tell me HOW to create two partitions, one NTFS and one for the Mac?

My PC is Windows XP. The Mac is an older OS9. 

Thanks,

Maxine

[Hamartolos]

If you want to use a drive like this on a Mac and PC, you have to reformat it because Mac cannot write to an NTFS partition, which is what this drive comes with.
So what you have to do is connect it to PC.
Reformat in Vista: http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/d9a4d35e-efdf-406c-a049-0860180129a71033.mspx
Reformat in XP/2000: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;309000

You can create various partitions if you want.
Mac can usually work with FAT32, but the problem is that I've seen several examples when connecting to a Mac and then later a PC ends up corrupting the FAT32 partition. So you have to always keep a backup of your data (but you should be doing that anyway).
Also, Vista and XP can't create FAT32 partitions that are bigger than 32 GB, so you have to keep that in mind. However, I'm pretty sure the Seagate DiscWizard tool (which is free) can create a FAT32 partition that's any size you want, so try it here.
http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=193643

[muzzard]

will doing this void the warranty or is it pretty much normal use of a hardrive?

[papadenadia]

no it wont void the warnty   u r good

[EIY1907]

Sorry I didn't know where to write this question. I'm new here. I have a GOFLEX HOME (2 TB) on my network; I added GOFLEX DESK external drive (3 TB) connecting to 2 via a USB cable. There is no Mac version Seagate Manager/Seagate Dashboard. So I installed the software in Windows through Parallel emulation software on my Mac. Yet, Windows cannot see my Seagate devices on my network as my Mac can. So I donwloaded Seagate's Discwizrd with hopes to get the Windows to see the devices but the wizrd won't install because it does not see the devices. What do I do? I need to have this accomplished so that I can have a reliable software to encrypt the files I will store on my Seagate device unless you have another solution for me. Thanks, Erol