Create mac os sierra iso for virtualbox. Sep 27, 2019 You have to if it comes with an NTFS format, because Mac OS X can only read but not write to hard drives using that format (at least out of the box, although you can buy Paragon NTFS or use a free tool such as Mounty for that, but you will have to. Nov 07, 2018 I have a hackintosh with 3 disks, one for mac OS, one for windows, and one for cross using with both. The latter is formatted NTFS. But I took good care of choosing a Samsung for this shared disk (seagate barracuda) which makes me able to use paragon NTFS. Formatted for NTFS out of the box, the drive will work right away with any Windows PC. If you're a Mac user, you will have to install the included NTFS driver onto your OS X device in order to use.
1. Open Terminal app ( in Applications > Utilities )
2. Type in diskutil list and Enter.
3. You will see lines of output something like below. ( This is for my Mac Mini with Internal drive only )
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 999.3 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
You will get second set of similar following them for (most likely) /dev/disk1, if your mac has an external drive connected.
In the case above, there are three partition. - EFI (for mac boot), Macintosh HD (OS X), and Recovery HD ( for booting in recovery mode ).
The TYPE column tells what is the format of the partition.
'Apple_HFS' is for normal boot/data partition for OS X.
'Microsoft Basic Data' is NTFS, for Windows data or boot , including BootCamp.
Other possible TYPE can be listed with another Terminal command diskutil listFilesystems.
> I couldn't even read from the drive when I plugged it in.
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I can only guess, as I have no detail info about what happened on your Mac at this point.
Probably, the Seagate driver took over OS for NTFS handling, but it fails to process due to necessary software ( part of driver ) did not work properly due to the compatibility with Yosemite.
Mac os mojave vmware workstation. It may help to identify the problem if you can find error messages in system log, which can be viewed with Console app ( also in Utilities folder ).
The message may come out either at OS boot or on connecting the drive.
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Also, visit Seagate site and check if any firmware update is available for your drive ( req. serial number ).