Formatting my Freeagent 1tb external hard drive for my Mac?

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http://www.ehow.com/how_4486548_use-regular-external-hard-drive.html

i have just bought a seagate external 1tb hdd to store more stuff on but it wont connect to my ps3 slim 120g what can i do

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Good luck.

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I would be tempted to format the drive using the disk utility whch can be found under applications and then utilities once opened choose your drive in the left hand window and on the right hand side click on erase. If you are using the Seagate drive for the Mac only, format it as a Mac OS Extended (journaled) Choose your volume format and name and then erase. Hope this helps.

If the Seagate has been re-formatted, then you will have to go through the re-install of the drive to your MAC, the drive should have come with it's own formatting tools and drivers. These external drives usually respond better with a small program that installs a set of driver tools. If you do not have the original freeagent disc, go to the Seagate support page, look up the model of the drive and download the program and drivers for that model and version.

Here is a link to Seagate that describes how to fromat your drive fro a Mac. GOOD LUCK!

try with removing and reconnecting the bus cable and smps cable.
and try with different bus connection

You are in trouble!
The buzzing sound is the heads trying to realign themselves at the beginning of the platter.
You could try putting it on a side and hope gravity helps.
But i'm afraid its broke beyond repair.

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IS THERE ANOTHER SITE THAT WILL FIT MY SEAGATE EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE, 1TB?

Fixed it by partitioning the Drive and formatting the Partition to Mac