I'll try to help with a couple of questions:
To find out which version of Mac OS you are on, click on the Apple sympbol in the upper left corner and click on 'About this Mac'. It will show Mac OS X Version 10.6.x (which would be Snow Leopard). And, if you want to find more info re. your iMac, simply click on 'more info' in that window and the System Profiler will open with all the hardware and software information available.
And yes, you can use most USB external drives with Macs, but they will most likely have been formatted for Windows, so you will need to re-format them. To do so, plug in a drive, and go to Applications folder -> Utilities and open Disk Utility. Highlight the external drive on left. Choose the 'Partition' tab. Choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled) as the format and, if you want to use it as a bootable clone, click on Options and choose GUID partition scheme. Disk Utility will then erase and format the drive. Remember to copy anything you want to keep elsewhere temporarily - partitioning a drive will erase it.
I don't use an Apple keyboard currently, but my previous ones never had a problem actually deleting with the delete key, so unless someone else has an idea, there may be a problem with that key.
And, I also do not use an Apple mouse, but you can set up your preferences and settings for both keyboard and mouse by going to System Preferences and choosing the Keyboard and Mouse panes.
To find out which version of Mac OS you are on, click on the Apple sympbol in the upper left corner and click on 'About this Mac'. It will show Mac OS X Version 10.6.x (which would be Snow Leopard). And, if you want to find more info re. your iMac, simply click on 'more info' in that window and the System Profiler will open with all the hardware and software information available.
And yes, you can use most USB external drives with Macs, but they will most likely have been formatted for Windows, so you will need to re-format them. To do so, plug in a drive, and go to Applications folder -> Utilities and open Disk Utility. Highlight the external drive on left. Choose the 'Partition' tab. Choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled) as the format and, if you want to use it as a bootable clone, click on Options and choose GUID partition scheme. Disk Utility will then erase and format the drive. Remember to copy anything you want to keep elsewhere temporarily - partitioning a drive will erase it.
I don't use an Apple keyboard currently, but my previous ones never had a problem actually deleting with the delete key, so unless someone else has an idea, there may be a problem with that key.
And, I also do not use an Apple mouse, but you can set up your preferences and settings for both keyboard and mouse by going to System Preferences and choosing the Keyboard and Mouse panes.
- Transferring Data From a Mac to PC via an External Hard Drive. Mac OS X and Windows can both read and write to disks in the FAT or ExFat format. Because Mac OS X Mountain Lion does not natively support writing to an external NTFS drive, you must erase your hard.
- Sep 21, 2020 The LaCie 2TB Mobile SSD drive is an external USB-C drive with more than enough space for all of your digital files. An Apple Store exclusive, its brushed aluminum exterior makes it look like it.
- Nov 22, 2020 Does the external hard drives you list, support PC as well as Mac? I am a photographer and have large data to save for my clients. I do want to scale my external backup resources. Currently I am using USB drives to take backup of my clients 1 by 1. I hope buying an external hard drive will help me store data of lot of clients on my external.
Jan 2, 2011 7:52 PM
Jan 2, 2011 7:52 PM
External Hard Drive For Imac Desktop
Couldn't find a better product on the market than Seagate's USB 3.0 Backup Drive with the two USB 3.0 ports on the front of the product. My laptop only has two USB 3.0 ports since it's a slim and lightweight HP Spectre x360 15' (also purchased from BestBuy.com at a cost that was cheaper after taxes than online conglomerates / competitors) offered at the time and even to this day!).
