You may have to add a third partition to get the external disk working attached to your TV set. Now test the external disk with all your devices.

Save the content (if any!) of the Seagate volumes to another drive.Īttach the Seagate to your Mac and open Disk Utility:

Some of your devices won't be able to read a GUID (e.g your TV set) or some of the formatted volumes (e.g HFS+ Journaled can't be read by Windows system without additional drivers). How do I format a Seagate external hard drive Make sure the storage device is connected to and mounted on the computer. Apple Partition Map or GUID).Ī partition may contain a file system (e.g. The partition table may have several mutually exclusive formats (e.g. Partitions are just a result of a logical splitting of a continuous disk.