I have a Macbook and a Macbook Air, both are on Mountain Lion. I have a Seagate GoFlex 2TB drive attached (ethernet) to my router.
Before I got my Macbook Air, I had an IBM Thinkpad. At that time both the IBM and the Macbook were backing up to the Network Drive. After switching to Mountain Lion and the MacBook Air, I decided to clean up the network drive ad I did not need the IBM applications etc, so I formatted the drive. This resulted in neither computer even 'seeing' the drive, it would not work anymore - it was not detected by MacOS and so by Time Machine.
After a lot of messing around (I used the Seagate utilities to wipe the drive, and also did a hard reset, I have now managed to get the drive working and it is backing up (Time Machine) the Macbook. However, the Macbook Air does not show the drive at all. I can sign onto the drive using IP address from either laptop, but MacBook Air Finder does not show it, so it does not show in Time Machine.
I am new to the Mac world and would appreciate any help in getting this sorted out.
Thanks
Before I got my Macbook Air, I had an IBM Thinkpad. At that time both the IBM and the Macbook were backing up to the Network Drive. After switching to Mountain Lion and the MacBook Air, I decided to clean up the network drive ad I did not need the IBM applications etc, so I formatted the drive. This resulted in neither computer even 'seeing' the drive, it would not work anymore - it was not detected by MacOS and so by Time Machine.
After a lot of messing around (I used the Seagate utilities to wipe the drive, and also did a hard reset, I have now managed to get the drive working and it is backing up (Time Machine) the Macbook. However, the Macbook Air does not show the drive at all. I can sign onto the drive using IP address from either laptop, but MacBook Air Finder does not show it, so it does not show in Time Machine.
I am new to the Mac world and would appreciate any help in getting this sorted out.
Thanks