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<blockquote data-quote="WhatDidiDoWrong" data-source="post: 1631406" data-attributes="member: 313062"><p>Several years ago I also moved my Time Machine backups to an external hard drive (Transcend) but as that is now getting full, and I had fantasies of being able to use that copy to restore my somehow screwed up installation of Pages software on my MacPro, I bought a WD Elements to start fresh. </p><p></p><p>Plugging it in, starting the process of selecting the new drive, I got this message:</p><p><span style="color: Red"><strong><em>"Are you sure you want to erase the backup disk”Elements”? Erasing will destroy all information on the disc and can’t be undone.</em></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Red"><em>The disk must be erased before it can be used for Time Machine backups because it has an incompatible file system."</em></span></p><p></p><p>Full stop with knowing what to do, having not much experience and then forgetting most of that but remembering dire warnings from postings I've read here.</p><p>Question #1 -Do I erase the new hard drive and go ahead and back up to it?</p><p>Question #2 -There was an initial window asking about backing up both locations. I had hoped to leave the old back ups in place so I could find the original software installations, use it to restore corrupted ones on my laptop hard drive, and then re-backup the new hard drive again. </p><p></p><p>Recommendations?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WhatDidiDoWrong, post: 1631406, member: 313062"] Several years ago I also moved my Time Machine backups to an external hard drive (Transcend) but as that is now getting full, and I had fantasies of being able to use that copy to restore my somehow screwed up installation of Pages software on my MacPro, I bought a WD Elements to start fresh. Plugging it in, starting the process of selecting the new drive, I got this message: [COLOR="Red"][B][I]"Are you sure you want to erase the backup disk”Elements”? Erasing will destroy all information on the disc and can’t be undone.[/I][/B] [I]The disk must be erased before it can be used for Time Machine backups because it has an incompatible file system."[/I][/COLOR] Full stop with knowing what to do, having not much experience and then forgetting most of that but remembering dire warnings from postings I've read here. Question #1 -Do I erase the new hard drive and go ahead and back up to it? Question #2 -There was an initial window asking about backing up both locations. I had hoped to leave the old back ups in place so I could find the original software installations, use it to restore corrupted ones on my laptop hard drive, and then re-backup the new hard drive again. Recommendations? [/QUOTE]
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