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

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!

Can you plug it in with a USB cable?

DarkestRitual said:

Can you plug it in with a USB cable?

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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...

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

Potential non-feature

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.

HMC said:

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