GoFlex, GoFlex Desk, GoFlex Pro, GoFlex Slim, & GoFlex Turbo

[PolymathGio]

So a while ago I purchase a a Goflex and installed it on my mac it asked me if I was going to be changing it between a pc and a mac so i clicked no now that I have gotten a PC I wish to know if it is possible to use it on a Windows 7 64-bit pc because I tried conecting it and it recognizes it as it has been conected but it is not shows under My Computer

[PolymathGio]

someone? or shuld I just trow this Goflex Pro Ultra portable and buy a new one which I doubt IZ will be able to. In the end what I want to do is be able to transfer files from my pc to my mac and from my mac to my pc and be able to back up booth computers

[silence711 · Accepted solution]

Try installing this to the windows machine:

http://www.seagate.com/support/external-hard-drives/desktop-hard-drives/goflex-desk-for-mac/goflex-m...

Download it, install it, make sure you have the drive connected during the install.

That SHOULD work, in the event that it doesn't...you can always reformat it for NTFS (PC format) and install the paragon driver onto your mac which will allow it to be pc/mac compatible. 

Let me know if you have troubles with the HFS driver.

[PolymathGio]

Thank you  That DID work finally goigng to be able to move my files from my pc to mac and viceversa 

[AstroVan]

Hi,

I would recommend not using the Paragon HFS+ driver. It's not fit for purpose and has stability issues. It corupted my drive with the first file I copied on Win7 x64. Then I had problems reading it on Mac OSX and paragon informed me that i would need to buy a $40 program to fix the drive, even to just format it.

I dicovered that the fsck_hfs process hogs the CPU. if you kill it, diks utlity will start working properly again allowing format of the drive. Without spending $40 on drive warrior etc. 

That said, Paragon NTFS may be a better piece of code and using NTFS between windows and Mac a much better 

My recommendation is buy a seperate drive to swpa files between mac and windows due to this HFS+ driver easliy corrupting drive.