SEAGATE 1TB BarraCuda 6Gb SATA Hard Drive User Manual

: June 15, 2024
: Seagate

Table of Contents

Back Up Now! (Windows)
- Want a faster way? Just copy and paste
- Set up a Toolkit backup plan
Back Up Now! (Mac)
References
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SEAGATE 1TB BarraCuda 6Gb SATA Hard Drive

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Back Up Now! (Windows)

Connect your Seagate storage device to your computer and you’re ready to back up your important files and folders. The fastest way to back up is to select items on your computer and copy them to your drive by dragging and dropping. If you want to make sure your data is continuously backed up, you can easily create an automated backup plan.

Open a File Explorer window and click on your drive.

Windows 7 — Use Windows Explorer to drag and drop items.

Open another File Explorer window and select folders or files on your computer to back up.
Drag items to your drive.

Want a faster way? Just copy and paste

Open a File Explorer window and select folders or files on your computer to back up.

Windows 7 — Use Windows Explorer to select items.

Click Copy on the Home menu.

Other ways to copy to the clipboard

  * Hold down the **Ctrl** key and press **C.**
  * Right-click on files and select **Copy** from the context menu.

Click on your drive.
Click Paste on the Home menu.

Other ways to paste files copied to the clipboard

  * Hold down the **Ctrl** key and press **V.**
  * Right-click on files and select **Paste** from the context menu.

Set up a Toolkit backup plan

Toolkit has an easy-to-use backup feature for your PC! For details, see the Toolkit User Manual.

Windows native backup solutions

Windows also has backup solutions. For details, choose your version of Windows:

Back Up Now! (Mac)

Format your drive for macOS

The external storage device you purchased is formatted NTFS, the native file format for Windows PCs. Your Mac can read the NTFS format but it can’t write to the drive or delete files from it. You can format the storage device to give your Mac full read/write access.

Formatting erases everything on the storage device. Seagate and its subsidiary, LaCie, are not responsible for any data lost due to formatting, partitioning, or using a storage device.

Open the Finder and go to Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility.
In the sidebar to the left, select your storage device.

macOS starting version 10.13 — Make sure to select the storage device and not just the volume. If you don’t see two entries listed in the sidebar, change the view in disk utility to show both the drive and the volume. The view button is in the upper left side of the Disk Utility window. Change the view to Show All Devices. This feature was introduced in macOS 10.13 and is not available in 10.11 or 10.12.|
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3. Select Erase. A dialog box opens.

Enter a name for the drive. This will be the name displayed when the drive mounts.
For Format, select OS X Extended (Journaled).
For Scheme, select GUID Partition Map.
Click Erase.
Disk Utility formats the drive. When it’s finished, click Done.

Start backing up

Connect your Seagate storage device to your computer and you’re ready to back up your important files and folders. The fastest way to back up is to select items on your computer and copy them to your drive by dragging and dropping. If you want to make sure your data is continuously backed up, you can easily create an automated backup plan.

Open a Finder window and click on your drive
Open another Finder window and select folders or files on your computer to back up
Drag items to your drive

Want a faster way? Just copy and paste