hey guys how's it going my name is
Raquel and we are back for another video
this is gonna be the first ever tips and
tricks tuesdays that will actually come
on send it since they're not but
hopefully it does so that the name makes
sense but yeah so i had a pc and a
secure time mac for those of you guys
who watched my previous videos in their
hair right here you'll know that's the
case so what happened was while i did
the little switch I've been learning
little tips and tricks as i go along and
i'm sharing them with you on this
youtube channel
disclaimer this channel is not a tech
youtube channel but whenever i come
across a tip or trick that might be
useful for you guys i put it up and I
have a little playlist with tips and
tricks so the first tips and tricks
video that I did did really really well
and now I have just one tip for you guys
today and I'm working on a longer tips
and tricks video I'm compiling that as
we speak so hard drive we all have one
of these and I was using it with this
bad boy for the longest time this one is
number LeBron Seagate so this is a
Seagate hard drive and it works well
with this but what I found is when I got
this MacBook it wasn't transferring my
documents I wasn't able to save anything
from my macbook on to the Seagate hard
drive so I troubleshoot to this for the
longest time and watched about like 10
YouTube videos to figure out how to get
it to work and if I had to watch some
YouTube videos chances are you're
probably gonna have to watch a couple
YouTube videos to figure it out too so
why not just watch me and I'll show you
how to do it in a couple easy steps I
already bought this to work so I'm not
gonna fidget with it anymore but I also
have a flash drive that's having the
same problem so I'll show you that one I
plug this in I can't get I can read all
the documents on it cuz aqua was able to
see everything that's on the drive again
it's a problem but if I want to add new
stuff to this flash drive it doesn't
work and that's exactly what was
happening with this hard drive fix the
problem here I'm gonna show you guys how
to fix the problem but I'm gonna use
this it works the same way so you can do
follow the steps and you can do it for
your hard drive so the first thing I
want to say is that it's really really
important to backup your hard drive
because whatever's on your hard drive
when you reform when you format your
hard drive we're gonna lose all of that
stuff because it's gonna involve erasing
it so you want to make sure that you're
backing off your hard drive before you
do it so for this bad boy I only had
about 40 gigs of stuff saved from this
computer that I wanted to keep so I back
that up before I formatted it if you
have more than a hundred gigs or
something like that of storage it's
gonna be a longer process to backup and
I don't know if it's worth it's or if
you just want to spend the 80 bucks and
gets in your hard drive but for me it
was only about 40 40 40 gigs of stuff so
I just kind of put it all on my desktop
to save it and then backed up the hard
drive and then changed the format of the
hard drive so that's what I'm gonna show
you how to do in this video it was a
really long intro let's get into it
so it just occurred to me how load it is
with the AC going so that just checked
out and we're gonna see if we can get
this entire tutorial done before it
kicks back in I apologize if it does
chip back in I'm not the only one in the
house and it is hot guys alright so
here's what we do so I plug the flash
drive in
and you see it a pair on my desktop like
so so I'm going to open it up and you
can see I have three files on this three
folders on this desktop I can open all
them and see what's in it no problem if
I try to drag this over from my desktop
I can't add anything to the file see it
just gives me that great circle with a
line through it so I can't stress how
important this is guys you need to
backup your harddrive so I'm creating a
new folder on my desktop and I'm just
gonna name it
backup 2020 and I'm going to drag all
the documents that were on my flash
drive over to this backup folder just to
make sure that everything's saved
so now that I have everything saved it's
gonna take a little bit of time and if
you have a longer a larger folder or
more stuff on your hard drive it's gonna
take even longer but yeah everything
saved right now as you can see I opened
up back up just to check that
everything's in there everything looks
good
so now I'm gonna go over to Disk Utility
and I get to Disk Utility by clicking on
the little magnifying glass and just
typing it in to spotlight search so Disk
Utility and it pops up right here on my
screen double click on that and it opens
up this utility now it's really
important guys this is your Macintosh
hard drive you don't want to touch that
go down to external and look for your
external hard drive this is mine it's
called Airtel and as you can see I have
this is a small flash drive it only has
a little bits of stuff on it but what I
want to point out to you is that it says
Windows NT file system so that's NTFS
and that's that's a Windows File and
what's happening here is that my macbook
can read it so it can see everything
that's on the on the flash drive but it
can't add anything else to it just
because it's not compatible so what
we're gonna do is we're gonna format
this Drive we're just gonna erase this
Drive so that it can it can be read by
both so we're gonna go over to erase and
then we're gonna just rename this Drive
it's not necessary to rename it but I'm
just gonna rename it anyway so Raquel
2020
I'll call it Raquel HD actually propel
HD there we go so now we're gonna format
and we're gonna you want to make sure
it's on exFAT exFAT is a file that that
Mac can read and that's a PC can read
and all the operating systems can read
it's like one of the most popular file
like formats I suppose is what I learned
about it so if you change it to exFAT
and now click erase everything on your
hard drive is
going to go this is why backing off is
so important so now it's creating this
as an extract file so now it says raquel
HD and highlighted exFAT boom click the
X and now when I go back to my hard
drive I can restore everything that was
on it so I'll just drag all this stuff
back over and again if you have a lot of
stuff it's gonna take a little bit of
time I don't really have that much stuff
because I'm just using a flash drive for
this example but if you have a lot of
files it will take some time
so now I'm able to actually put things
on this flash drive and we'll try this
picture again
voila so yeah there you have it guys the
flash drive is now read and writable so
my MacBook is able to add things to it
and I can also take things off it and
see everything that's on it no problem
if I try to get on my PC it will still
work no problem so that's how you do it
and just because somebody asked in the
last video I'll just show you quickly
how to eject your flash drive so all you
have to do is right-click on your flash
drive go down to eject and you're free
to plug your flash drive out of your
computer no problem so yeah that's it
can't stress enough how important it is
to make sure that you backup your hard
drive if you want to do this process
because anything that was on it will be
lost um if you have more than 100 gigs
I'd uh I personally wouldn't put all of
that on this what I did was this
computer has a lot of storage so I did
the same process on the desktop but I
just did it on my on my PC instead so I
plugged the hard drive this hard drive
into my PC and I created a folder called
backup and then I dragged everything on
to it because this computer has a way
more storage than this so 40 gigs of
stuff was saved there and then I brought
it back over to this computer turn it
into the exacta
exFAT file the way I just showed you how
to do it and then I was able to transfer
everything from this computer onto the
hard drive and still have this hard
drive work with this computer hopefully
that makes sense to you and hopefully
this was helpful I will be back with
another tips and tricks compilation
video next week Tuesday have a good one
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