This drive should already have a charge AND should draw power from the computer, so normally this is not how I would use it. My solution was to connect it to electrical power while it was connected to the laptop. The way I use this drive is wired to transfer files, and wireless to consume media, if that makes sense. I wasn't using wireless to connect in the first place. Pmiles - sorry it's taken so long to get back to you. Take it from somebody was lost a lot of data to hard drive failures always backup and Time Machine is so transparent if you're using a Mac you should be using Time Machine. I hope this helps and be sure to always have backups of your important data. *** The ExFat format is new to Mac OSX 10.9 Mavericks and doesn't have a 4gb file size limit the "MS-DOS fat" or Fat32 does but not all devices like cameras & digital devices can't read or write to it. Then click apply and your Mac will create all the partitions you wanted and you're good to go. That way it will be bootable by Mac OS.7. One thing you need to do though when you re-formatting the drive is go to the option button under partition In the disk utility application. The reason is Windows machines and Macs can read and write to the "MS-DOS fat" format but your files will need to be under 4 GB each as that's the maximum file size it can handle.*** 6. Sometimes it's good to make two partitions and one using "MS-DOS fat" or "ExFat" if you might be transferring files to and from a Windows machine. If you are transferring video files I highly recommend you choose Mac OS Extended (If you want to use it with Time Machine this is the choice you need to make) as it can handle files over 4GB. Then on the right-hand side you can name the partitions and select the format. I generally go with one partition and just use folders to organize my files.ĥ. Then inside that screen on the partition layout drop-down choose how many partitions you'd like to set up. Next select the newly plugged in a drive and on the right-hand side you should see partition click on that.Ĥ. Open up disk utility found in your applications folder inside the utilities folderģ. If you're a Mac user setting up or erasing this drive up with your computer is super easy follow these steps.Ģ.
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