How to Use Seagate Slim Portable Drive for Mac?

Backup Plus Slim

So to find you Disk Utility just go to your spotlight search sees weights just click up there lets go see this and just type in Disk.

How do I Use Seagate Backup Slim on Mac?

Plug in your Backup Plus to your system.
Open Time Machine from your Menu Bar or from System Preferences.
Choose Select Backup Disk.
Select Seagate Backup Plus Drive or the external drive as shown connected to your Mac, and choose Use for Backup.

How do I Use Seagate on Mac?

Simply plug in the power, plug in the USB cable, and the drive should appear in My Computer/This PC and Windows Explorer /File Explorer. For Mac, you will need to reformat the drive prior to using it because it will be readonly on a Mac, which means you will be unable to copy or move data to the drive.

How do I Set up Seagate for Mac?

Make sure the storage device is connected to and mounted on the computer.
Select Go > Utilities in the Finder menu bar .
In the Utilities folder, doubleclick Disk Utility.
Select the Seagate drive in the left column.
Click the Erase tab.
Choose a format from the dropdown window.
Enter a name for the volume.

Is Seagate Backup Plus Slim Compatible with Mac?

Seagate Backup Plus is preformatted exFAT for compatibility with both Windows and Mac computers. If you use the drive with only one type of computer, you can optimize file copy performance by formatting the drive in the native file format for your operating system.