Open Disk Utility, select the external hard drive and go to Partition. The real PC3000 UDMA test kit runs over $4000 - far more than the typical cost of a data recovery. For maximum compatibility, back up everything from the external hard drive onto your Mac. It will erase all the existing and deleted/lost data on the disk.
A number of dubious websites advertise a “PC3000 PCI” card, for example, but this is almost always a Chinese clone of the original product, and is far too old to handle modern drives in any case. To get a totally clean drive like a new one, you can choose Erase Hard Drive option to wipe all the data on the disk. The Seagate Backup Plus Slim Portable Drive for Mac is fully compatible with Time Machine, so set it up once and you will be backed up. The only way to find out is to go digging for information online, and you’ve got to apply a strong sort filter to estimate the value of what you’ll find.
Format seagate backup plus for mac and windows install#
If you want to connect Backup Plus Desktop to a Mac as well as a Windows PC, you can install special software that allows Macs to read and write files to NTFS hard drives similar to Windows PCs. However, NTFS is not fully compatible with Mac computers. Other drives, like mine, incorporate the ROM into the controller. Therfore, you can connect Backup Plus Desktop to a Windows PC without formatting the hard drive. Some hard drives have an externally mounted ROM/NVRAM chip that can be removed and soldered on to a new PCB. Your options at this point depend on what sort of HDD you have. Beep-less, my drive sat mute - spinning, but unrecognized in BIOS. Swapping out the PCB eliminated the 12 beeps, but accomplished nothing else. In retrospect, a full drive might have been the better option, but the purchase only set me back $22 and ~14 days while my part took the slowboat from China.
Each drive ROM contains parameters and data unique to that particular device - if the parameters for your dead drive are different from those contained on the donor PCB, it won’t function. Understand this: Simply replacing the PCB almost certainly won’t fix a dead drive.
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