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. 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.
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. 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. Double-click on the HFS4WIN.exe file to start the installation. Download the file HFS4WIN.exe to your Windows computer.
The drive must be connected to the computer during installation or the install will not complete. 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. Connect the Seagate external for Mac drive to the Windows computer.
