It seems that there are a lot of reports that the FreeAgent drives do not work with Macs. Here's just one: If that is indeed the case, then no amount of finagling is going to make it work with your Mac. I find it hard to believe that one drive will work on Windows but not Macintosh - there's nothing 'Windows-specific' or 'Mac-specific' about a disk drive. In other words, there's nothing about the drive that should make it Mac- incompatible as long as it adheres to the USB 2.0 spec and has an SATA/IDE bridge chip that's compliant. Not to mention that there are other operating systems out there - Linux, UNIX, Solaris, etc.

It seems strange that a disk is 'Windows-only.' Blows my little computer science mind, as it seems to be more trouble to make a disk drive incompatible with certain operating systems.

This did not work for me. After successfully creating 2 mac partitions, I received an error when I tried to erase/make it 1 drive again. What DID work was using a 3rd party app - Drive Genius - no complaints from it. After this, I was able to use Mac's Disk Utility to slice and dice and then reconstitute it. The clue as to whether you've removed the hidden voodoo is in Disk utility. Click on the ERASE tab. If the Volume Format defaults to MS-DOS (FAT), you have a problem.

If you see Mac OS Extended (Journaled), you're good to go. I like Seagate, but this is BS!!! What do you mean it might not be seagate? They sell the same exact model for $60 dollars more and say that one is mac compatible, but this one is not?

I have never seen a usb/firewire/esata drive that would ever TRY to prevent you from reformatting it. This drive prevented me from reformatting it, and when I searched seagates forums i found many posts saying it was not mac compatible. That if I wanted a mac compatible drive to get the desk drive MAC version. ($$ChaChing$$) Seagate was trying to impose a Mac-Tax. Don't reformat! I meant try it on a mac w/ an older MAC OS!

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Like 10.3.9, 10.4.x or 10.5.6. 10.5.7 and my last Seagate 'windoze-oriented' purchase didn't play well together. While the prob was caused by seagate, i suspect that 10.5.7 makes it more problematic (as mentioned in this thread). Maybe it's defective. Get another drive asap and copy everything to it. Contact and send the other one back to seagate.

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I don't think it's worth messing with too much - it's your data, after all. All companies have bad batches of products. If it's a windoze-based HD, try to wipe it on a windows machine before you return it. You didn't mention if/that it was specifically related to sleep. Is that the only time?

If it's ONLY a sleep issue, then include that in your search for help! If you remove 'seagate' from the words in google, you will see that other brands have issues too = 10.5.7 to blame?

And if you post, you might include OS, and hardware info.

If they are the same as my current FreeAgent Pro drives, they come with a utility (Windows, of course ) which allows you to disable the internal sleep. When I'm running with my external drives attached (4, 2 of them FreeAgents), I'm also plugged in and want maximum system performance, so I have my Energy Saver prefs set to keep the drive(s) awake. Since there's only one setting for both internal and external, I had to disable the auto-sleep on the FreeAgents. Desktop drives spinup much slower than 2.5' and it was tiresome to wait for the drive(s) to spinup every time I opened a Finder or Open/Save window (or so it seemed). Tipard dvd cloner for mac serial.