This may be a bug, and I'll keep my issue open, but it's worth taking note that there's a better way to do file systems on ext. This doesn't solve the issue that El Capitan, especially with the later betas, seems to refuse to show any NTFS drives anymore. Also shop for Hand Tool Sets at best prices on.

hard drive and plans to use it with a Mac, first thing before you put any data on it - REFORMAT it to exFAT - it will save you a lot of trouble later. Find hard drive repair tools with high quality at AliExpress. The utility can check your disk for bad blocks in various test modes (reading, verification, erasing), predicting disk degradation before you have to call data recovery service. You are into an area where repair shops, hard. HDDScan is a Free test tool for hard disk drives, USB flash, RAID volumes and SSD drives. As soon as the format was done on my Windows machine, I ran back to my Mac and plugged that drive in and - what do you know - it worked!!įor Future Reference: Advice to anyone who buys a Seagate NTFS-based ext. Free download and install Seagate hard drive recovery tool on computer. My solution: Since I had another Seagate drive that I needed to reformat anyways, I did a little research and found that the exFAT format works better for Mac/PC interop. The Problem: My Seagate hard drive would not be recognized by my Mac.

So I just solved this problem on my own.However, my solution actually didn't solve the inherent still-remaining problem of NTFS support in OS X El Capitan Beta.

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