NiceTQ 3FT USB2.0 Charger Data Cable For Seagate FreeAgent Desk 1 TB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive ST310005FDA2E1-RK

hello welcome to best reviews at YouTube this item has a rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars a customer wrote i ordered this drive because of the capacity and the price figuring that when it arrived I would simply reformat it hfs+ and plug it into my Macintosh network the problem was that every time I try to use disk utility to reformat it I kept getting an error I forget the exact verbiage not only that but when I attached it to my pc running XP home it wouldn't even recognize it as a hard drive it thought it was a DVD Drive dot I poked around on the Seagate website and found this troubleshooting procedure which solved my issue colon 1 open finder greater than applications greater than utilities greater than disk utility to click on the partition tab 3 click on the current volume scheme drop-down menu and select 11 partition dot 4 click options from the partition schemes provided colon 5 clic