How to format my new seagate freeagent 500 gb with macbook?

Go to the manufacture website, www.seagate.com Type: format hard drive.

It's probably formatted to the wrong filesystem; Macs prefer HFS+, Windows prefers NTFS, but they both can read and write FAT32. I'd recommend using the Mac's Disk Utility application to reformat the drive to be FAT 32 (but be careful, this will erase the external hard drive, so back up first!)

insert the externel drive into you computer..after detecting your drive by your PC...right click the drive and select format option...

is the hdd getting detected....??? if it got detected then format it and try to use... if it is not detected then, let me know, i shall assist you further...

Go to Control Panel => Administrative Tools => Computer Management => Storage => Disk Management.

The drive should be shown on the list, just right click for options, you can partition, format, change driver letter, whatever you need to do.

good luck!

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.

the soft ware that comes with it will also be erased, as it is a windows based identification,seagate free agent has mac utilities on its site, try to find out on www.seagate.com. you will find one for mac format and mac installation .

Open up the control panel with the drive connected, open administrative tools and computer management. Select storage and see if the drive is listed there. It will probably let you format it from there.

yes you have to mac format it, this deletes all your files. use the disk utility in the utility folder an erase with mac extended

Is this a new hard drive that you are using?
Once plugged in, you can right click on My Computer and choose Manage. From here select Disk Management under Storage. If the USB or Firewire cable work properly, you will see the drive listed. Here you can Format it and assign a drive letter. Here is the instructions from Seagates website.
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/iguides/external/engl_qsg.pdf
And here is the link for product support.
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=Installation_Assistance&vgnextoid=dce3b27d0434e010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD