Time Machine - airport extreme - External drive WD world Edition 1TB

juanpablomdq · juanpablomdq #1 (**permalink**)

03-29-2010, 09:28 PM

Hi Everyone! Hopefully some of you had the problem that im having and can help me bc im going nuts! Im a new mac user...

I have a macbook pro with snow leopard, an aiport extreme and a 1 TB Western digital world edition connected to the airport extreme.

I can surf the web with no problem and i can acces the externarl hard drive through finder, copy files, etc.

But the problem comes when i want to use time machine since it wouldnt find the hard drive... Im guessing i have to format the WD to HFS but the thing is that when i open the disk utility its not there.

So i have also tried plugging the hard drive directly to my mac through the ethernet cable but when i do that the hard drive is not even recognized...

Any suggestions?

thanks a lot!

DarkestRitual · DarkestRitual #2 (**permalink**)

03-29-2010, 09:39 PM

Can you plug it in with a USB cable?

juanpablomdq · juanpablomdq #3 (**permalink**)

03-29-2010, 10:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DarkestRitual

Can you plug it in with a USB cable?

Yes! I´ve tried plugin it via Usb directly to my macbook pro and to the aiport but in both cases the drive was not recognized...

macwannabe · macwannabe #4 (**permalink**)

04-17-2010, 05:06 PM

go here and click on the link on the bottom of the page it will tell you have to set up time machine.

HMC · HMC #5 (**permalink**)

05-18-2010, 06:59 PM

This feature of AEBS is apparently not reliable or available for many people. Mine stopped working after many months and I lost my backups. See this post at Apple Support:

Apple - Support - Discussions - Using Time MACHINE with a USB drive ...

Cynics will say Apple 'broke' this feature (or never made it stable) so they could sell more Time Capsules.

osxx · osxx #6 (**permalink**)

05-18-2010, 11:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HMC

This feature of AEBS is apparently not reliable or available for many people. Mine stopped working after many months and I lost my backups. See this post at Apple Support:

Apple - Support - Discussions - Using Time MACHINE with a USB drive ...

Cynics will say Apple 'broke' this feature (or never made it stable) so they could sell more Time Capsules.

i have been using the AE via usb to my external LACIE drive since 10.6 with
no issues.

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juanpablomdq #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Mar 29, 2010 Posts: 3	03-29-2010, 09:28 PM Hi Everyone! Hopefully some of you had the problem that im having and can help me bc im going nuts! Im a new mac user... I have a macbook pro with snow leopard, an aiport extreme and a 1 TB Western digital world edition connected to the airport extreme. I can surf the web with no problem and i can acces the externarl hard drive through finder, copy files, etc. But the problem comes when i want to use time machine since it wouldnt find the hard drive... Im guessing i have to format the WD to HFS but the thing is that when i open the disk utility its not there. So i have also tried plugging the hard drive directly to my mac through the ethernet cable but when i do that the hard drive is not even recognized... Any suggestions? thanks a lot!
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DarkestRitual #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Apr 09, 2009 Location: Ithaca NY Posts: 2,073 Mac Specs: 13 inch alMacBook 2GHz C2D 4G DDR3, 1.25GHz G4 eMac	03-29-2010, 09:39 PM Can you plug it in with a USB cable?
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HMC #5 (permalink)
Member Since: Oct 24, 2009 Posts: 1	05-18-2010, 06:59 PM This feature of AEBS is apparently not reliable or available for many people. Mine stopped working after many months and I lost my backups. See this post at Apple Support: Apple - Support - Discussions - Using Time MACHINE with a USB drive ... Cynics will say Apple 'broke' this feature (or never made it stable) so they could sell more Time Capsules.
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