I just purchased a Seagate Slim portable drive for backing up. I just did my first backup and now I forgot how to eject when finished before I unplug

I just purchased a Seagate Slim portable drive for backing up my mac. Used it the first time today. Now I forgot how to safely eject it manually when it is/was finished backing up.

Choose Computer from the Finder's Go menu, select it, and press the Command and E keys.
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http://www.apple.com/airport-extreme/specs/
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Since Disk Utility can see your drive that is at least a good thing. I am just trying to establish where you stand on booting. Normally if you can boot but experience problems then you can try Disk Utility to repair the drive, which obviously doesn't work in your case. Next is Safe mode which starts up pretty much normally but bypasses some things, and that too is not working. Single User Mode takes you to a text presentation boot stage.
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Roger

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A drop or two of water may have been enough to cook it. If it was bad enough to prompt you to put it in a bag of rice, then I'd venture to guess it was more than a drop or two.
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I have a Seagate Slim Portable 500 GB USB 3.0 external hard drive that worked great with my Macbook Pro 13" Retina but gets ejected and won't show files on any iMac. My Macbook Pro and the two different iMacs I tried it on were all using Mountain Lion, so the only difference was the iMac versus Macbook Pro.

I just tried this, no luck...
I connected a different USB cable, still the same problem. Tried both cables with the problematic hard drive on two different computers, still the same problem.
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NewerTech 7 Port Hi-Speed USB 2.0 Hub with Power Adapter for Mac & PC
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I am trying to put the files from my mac onto a seagate backup plus slim portable drive but as soon as I plug the hard drive into my laptop, a notification comes up saying that there was an error

I am trying to put the files from my mac onto a seagate backup plus slim portable drive but as soon as I plug the hard drive into my laptop, a notification comes up saying that there was an error

carriinna wrote:
I am trying to put the files from my mac onto a seagate backup plus slim portable drive but as soon as I plug the hard drive into my laptop, a notification comes up saying that there was an error
What kind of error. What does it say?
Ciao.

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What do I need to do to be able to read and write files to a Seagate Backup Plus Slim Portable Drive on BOTH a Mac and a PC? I downloaded "Paragon NTFS for Mac" onto my Mac, so now I can write to the drive, but when I plug it into a PC it won't work.

If the HDD is formatted NTFS, then it suggests that there is a problem with the PC. Check with the manufacturer.
Ciao.

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best options for the price, and high quality HD:
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Perfect 1TB for $68
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2.5" USB portable High quality BEST FOR THE COST, Toshiba "tiny giant" 2TB drive (have several of them, LOT of storage in a SMALL package) $117
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