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Hi there!
I am trying to use a recently purchased WD passport on my Macbook Pro.
I have been googling and come across various sources saying that I have to partition the drive, but I am unsure of what this means and how exactly to do it.
I already selected that I wanted to use TimeMachine with the device, and then began trying to do a backup. It was working, but moving extremely, extremely slow, so I stopped it because I felt as though something was wrong. Then I tried to do some research on the WD website, which was unhelpful, but ultimately discovered that I probably needed to reformat the drive.
My main concerns are:
1) I do not want to use TimeMachine if that means I can only access my backed up files through this computer. I am most interested in having the external hard-drive so that if this computer crashes I have everything saved. Should I make it so that the drive doesn't use time machine? And if so, how?
2) I am unclear about what partitioning does to the drive and exactly how I should be doing it. I have yet to see a step-by-step process for someone who is semi computer dumb.
Any help would be soo appreciated!!! Thanks in advance
I am trying to use a recently purchased WD passport on my Macbook Pro.
I have been googling and come across various sources saying that I have to partition the drive, but I am unsure of what this means and how exactly to do it.
I already selected that I wanted to use TimeMachine with the device, and then began trying to do a backup. It was working, but moving extremely, extremely slow, so I stopped it because I felt as though something was wrong. Then I tried to do some research on the WD website, which was unhelpful, but ultimately discovered that I probably needed to reformat the drive.
My main concerns are:
1) I do not want to use TimeMachine if that means I can only access my backed up files through this computer. I am most interested in having the external hard-drive so that if this computer crashes I have everything saved. Should I make it so that the drive doesn't use time machine? And if so, how?
2) I am unclear about what partitioning does to the drive and exactly how I should be doing it. I have yet to see a step-by-step process for someone who is semi computer dumb.
Any help would be soo appreciated!!! Thanks in advance