I think I have a slightly different problem. I have recently bought an iMac and wanted to reformat my 1.5GB external hard drive on my mac...
When I first plugged in my hard drive, ready to format it, it asked if I wanted to turn it into a Time Machine Backup, it warned that it would erase all data as this is not the correct blah blah blah... which would be fine as I was prepared to format anyway. The problem is, now I can't turn it back into a normal storage hard drive.
I would try and format it again, split it into 2 drives perhaps but all that comes up on finder is the time machine and there is no option to format it. I know where to find 'format' usually but it's not there. My time machine has 1.49 TB available space but I can't really store my tunes on the time machine for normal plug and play on other computers can I?
I might be missing something obvious here, new mac user
When I first plugged in my hard drive, ready to format it, it asked if I wanted to turn it into a Time Machine Backup, it warned that it would erase all data as this is not the correct blah blah blah... which would be fine as I was prepared to format anyway. The problem is, now I can't turn it back into a normal storage hard drive.
I would try and format it again, split it into 2 drives perhaps but all that comes up on finder is the time machine and there is no option to format it. I know where to find 'format' usually but it's not there. My time machine has 1.49 TB available space but I can't really store my tunes on the time machine for normal plug and play on other computers can I?
I might be missing something obvious here, new mac user
