seagate external drive

I bought a new 5tb Seagate external drive and encrypted it with Disk Utility with a "passowrd hint" on my 2019 Macbook Pro (Catalina). The drive has never been used and is empty. However, the password hint did not show when I plugged it back in, so I thought maybe I should redo the encrytion. I...

Hello all, I'm a new MacRumors user :-) I've read many forums to find an answer to this problem, but even the Apple support couldn't fix it, I hope to find some good suggestions here! Since High Sierra and now up to Mojave 10.14.5, I can't boot an iMac 5K 27" late-2015 using an external HD...

my seagate expansion external hard drive is formally kaputt. It doesn't show up on my desktop or in disk utility. I am not sure what has happened. I can't do any first aid on it because it is not there. I have switched usb ports and tried on another laptop. Squat. Can anyone help with what...

I'm trying to backup my new MacBook Pro (2015) to my old MacBook Pro (2011) using OS X Server. I have a Seagate backup plus slim 2TB external hard drive hooked up to the old MBP, which is where I want to backup my new MBP to using Time Machine. If I select an internal folder to backup to on the...

I bought a new Seagate external hard drive before loading El Capitan, and save everything. Excellent. Works perfectly. An older Seagate has many other documents that I want but it is not being recognized by my MacBook Pro now. Help please.

Chat Conversation Start 5:09PM I have a Macbook Pro 2011, bought a new Seagate external hard drive (Backup Plus for Mac); recently downloaded El Capitan; The new drive works fine with El Capitan, but, I had a previous Seagate external drive that functioned fine before the Mac upgrade but is not...