You only need 3rd party NTFS drivers if you want to write to an NTFS drive. macOS can read NTFS drives, and erasing a drive isn’t dependent on the current format.
Removing the drive from time machine prefs and re-adding it seems to have worked. Regards Sam MacAmbulance Ltd. Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development Sam Mullen +44 (0)7747778022 <tel://+447747778022> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> www.macambulance.co.uk <https://www.macambulance.co.uk/> MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration number 8466597 This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. > On 23 Mar 2017, at 21:23, Jason Kitcat <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Catherine > > I had this problem with the same drives - they come formatted to NTFS by > default. So you need the Paragon drivers Seagate offers. Then you need to > reformat the whole drive (not just the volume) making sure you use GUID > partition map and MacOS Extended format. > > Then set it to be time machine drive from scratch. > > One a couple of occasions I could only get it going by formatting on a > different computer - I don’t know why. Once done they have worked like a > dream ever since. > > All the best, > Jason > >> On 23 Mar 2017, at 20:54, Catherine Hunt <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Hi Sam, >> >> Nothing comes up when I put in i/o. Never used Console before and I can see >> that the Seagate drive isn’t on the device list, even though it’s connected. >> Done a screenshot in Dropbox. >> >> https://www.dropbox.com/s/73idd9tnvf877e0/Screenshot%202017-03-23%2020.50.37.png?dl=0 >> >> <https://www.dropbox.com/s/73idd9tnvf877e0/Screenshot%202017-03-23%2020.50.37.png?dl=0> >> >> Best wishes >> Catherine >> >> Catherine Hunt >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> >> >>> On 23 Mar 2017, at 20:44, Sam - MacAmbulance <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> i/o >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug >> <https://groups.google.com/group/smug>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > -- > Jason Kitcat > > @jasonkitcat <https://twitter.com/jasonkitcat> > 07956 886 508 > http://www.jasonkitcat.com <http://www.jasonkitcat.com/> > > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug > <https://groups.google.com/group/smug>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
