Will this drive work just by plugging this into a Macbook Pro running 10.10.1 ? I have 10 old iomega 100mb disks that I'd like to open. Thanks
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The drive works on my Mac 10.10.1 without problem. I have yet to try uploading iomega files. Iomega likely will offer assistance if you have any problem with the upload. Suggest asking them.
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Yes, I have a black version with my Macbook Pro. Before you use it, you have to format the drive using disk utility on your mac. Format the drive as ExFat file system and it works perfectly.
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This drive is compatible with Mac OSX 10.8, so I imagine there are no problems with somewhat earlier releases of OSX like what you have. I always do my own drive reformatting/partitioning since drives arrive from the factory in Apple Partition Map/APM partitioning (because it's compatible with the old PowerPC based Macs), but I prefer the GUID Partition table/GPT partitioning scheme because it's what's required to boot from an Intel-based Mac (all Macs for the last several years). All of these can be easily changed with the "Disk Utility" software that comes with every Mac. You can reformat, repartition, etc. In any case, even if you don't repartition or reformat it should work just fine with your Mac
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There is no reason why it wouldn't, even right out of the box. I did reformat mine with Disk Utility so I could put a bootable partition on it with the basic Mountain Lion install (emergency boot disk, really . . . have never had to use it, however). On the other hand, I have never had a problem with a disk from WD, Seagate, Hitachi or Toshiba working with OS 10. Hope this helpsDave
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William...... My son and I recently purchased one of these drives for our MacMini. We have a small photography business (Armillaryinc.com) and are now using the drive as part of our normal processing and as an integral part of our backup strategy. We are very pleased with the device. Hope this helps! Best of luck.
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Yes, the drive is compatible with a Mac, you'd just have to reformat the drive for the Mac file system, not a big deal to do though.
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I've only used this drive for DVDs which works fine. I don't see why it wouldn't work it looks good with my MacBook Air too. I have no issues with this drive
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I am currently using a 2 TB WD My Book for Mac on OSX 10.9.1. It works flawlessly and am very happy with it. I set it up when I was still using Lion. Then upgraded to Mavericks and had no problem.
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I have successfully used these drives with older MacBook Pro and Mac Pro desktop machines. Prepare three drives in the same way you prepare a hard drive with Disk Utilities.
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The drive works well on my system, an iMac running OS 10.9 (Mountain Lion). I did a quick online search and found users reporting no problems using OS 10.5 (Leopard) and several versions in between. Check your OS and search for the drive and your specific OS
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tara,I got curious about your questin and was able to e-mail the company thru amazon and this is what the tech had to say! I hope this helps!I have tested these on the MacBook Pro running Mac OSX 10.6 and it was fine - in the event you have problem with the drive with the Mac you are running - you can contact us for support or return item for refund I hope this helps you!!!
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This is just the case, you will need to provide the HDD (2.5in SATA (SATA, SATA II, SATA III) laptop hard drive or SSD) separately... check your MacBook's specifications.... that being said it's standard USB 2.0 connection, it will work just as any regular USB drive would.... I'm very happy with mine and it enabled me to get access to my old laptop's files and now use the case for "on-the-go"...
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While I have never tried this particular hard drive with 10.5.x, I can't imagine there would be any problem. Macs running just about any flavor of 10.x should be able to use these external hard drives without a problem.
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Yes the drive is fully compatible with Mac OS X leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion. Tried it on all platforms because I help friends and they had all those operating systems. Hope ya buy it.
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My use of this drive has been exclusively on the Mac. However, I did not use any of the back-up software or formatting provided on the drive. It was necessary to use the Mac disk utility to reformat the drive. Then it worked with Apple's Time Machine.
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Just to throw in my 2 cents here, the Disk Utility reformat mentioned above in Andrew's post is spot-on. The drive so far as been great to use. However, I'm running Mac 10.5.6 and it was immediately recognized when I first plugged it in: it mounted and Time Machine asked if I wanted to use it for backups...I did the reformatting anyway as the apps on board are no use to a Mac owner.BTW, the $99 price was unbelievable!Fingers crossed on reliability,Yikesboy
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You have a MacBook Pro that has a built in Superdrive. Per Apple the new, external Superdrive will not work with an of the older, aka Built in Superdrive computers. If you have time to return it, I'd return it to Amazon for a credit.