![]() Thank you for the reply. I wrote here about 6 months ago and I never received an email telling me that someone had replied and I appologize. I do want to do this correctly and I am not a computer person, I am a Grandmother. What do you mean by 'the file that came preloaded on the disk first'? There appears to be 2 partitions. One that is for the backing up of my C drive. That partition is MY Replica and has no other files in it other than what it backed up from my C drive. I am trying to reformat an external seagate harddrive for use on my windows 7 running PC. The drive used to be used on a mac so is probably in the wrong format so isn't automatically. I have a 320GB simple tech external hard drive that i used for my mac book pro. My mac book pro broke down completely so i bought an Asus laptop which runs Windows 7. I go to plug in the external hard drive, however i cant access it. It does show up under devices and printers but i cant open it in anyway. The other partition has some files I put on there and have backed up someplace else. There is a file named Seagate. It's only subfolder is Registration. There is a file named USB 3.0PC Card Adapter which I can not figure out why it is there and it has no subfiles. Then there is Autorun.inf, Setup.exe and Start.Exe. What is nessesary to keep? I do not want Replica to start backing up again so I assume I need to find the softway and get it off. Go to Disk Manager. Right click on each partition and select Delete from the menu. When all partitions are gone, Right Click on the Raw (unallocated) space and create a new partition there. When complete, Right Click again and select Format and Select NTFS. Quick format should do fine. The existing autorun is the automatic back up function you ran into. If this is an external hard drive and you want to use it with Mac's or Windows systems older than XP, then format to Fat32 instead. You have to be a little bit crazy to keep you from going insane. I'm sure none of us will sulk if we don't get chosen for Best Answer. It's done now so I'd just leave it - you shouldn't get any more reminders. The web is littered with request to do just what you are asking but with no definite answers. If you are sure you don't need anything that is on that drive, and you don't mind taking a chance with it, then try this: With the Seagate Replica drive plugged in, find it in 'Computer' - making quite certain it is the right drive. Right click it and choose 'Format'. In the window that opens, choose the NTFS file system, then Quick format, then Start. Unless it is partitioned some way it should work like any other drive afterwards. If it then start backing up the C drive again (or it won't let you format) then we seem to be stuck. Seagate insist their customers use it the way it was intended and give no guidance about using it as a normal HDD. Always pop back and let us know the outcome - thanks. First, formatting will erase everything on the disk, so move anything you want to a temporary storage. In Disk Utility, select the hard drive in the list on the left. Make sure you select the actual hard drive and not one of its volumes indented below it. Click the Erase button on the toolbar. Set the Format to: • ExFAT if you wish to use it with both Mac (10.6 or later) and Windows (XP SP3 or later OS). • Mac OS Extended (Journaled) if you are only using on a Mac. • You can use the encrypted option if you need that. If you are going to use it on Windows, it won't work. However, you can create an encrypted disk, then partition it with non-encrypted partitions for use with Windows. • case-sensitive is only recommended for very specific situations and will often cause problems with some software. Set the Scheme to GUID Partition Map • That will work with both Mac and Windows (not sure of minimum OS required, though). • MBR is an old Windows partition scheme which can be used on both Mac and Windows, but you won't be able to boot from the drive on a Mac. ![]() First, formatting will erase everything on the disk, so move anything you want to a temporary storage. In Disk Utility, select the hard drive in the list on the left. Make sure you select the actual hard drive and not one of its volumes indented below it. Click the Erase button on the toolbar. Set the Format to: • ExFAT if you wish to use it with both Mac (10.6 or later) and Windows (XP SP3 or later OS). • Mac OS Extended (Journaled) if you are only using on a Mac. • You can use the encrypted option if you need that.
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