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Question from Lawrence: Hi Rick. I’m hoping you can answer a question for me about hard drives.
In early 2020 I bought a Seagate STHN2000400 2TB external hard drive to use to transfer files back and forth between the personal Mac I keep at home and another Mac that I use at work.
This arrangement was working great until my home Mac bit the dust and I had to replace it.
The problem I’m having is the MacBook Pro I bought a few days ago won’t work with the Seagate drive. There’s no connector on the laptop that will accept the plug on the drive.
If at all possible I’d like to keep using this drive with the new MacBook Pro because it contains thousands of files that I use both at home and at work.
Is there some kind of adapter I can buy to make this particular Seagate drive work with my new laptop? [Read more…]