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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Desktop Hardware
External HDD and Time Machine problems please help!!!
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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 721690" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>When the drive was setup for Time Machine it was formatted as HFS+ which can not be accessed by a Windows PC. You do realize that if you reformat the drive to work with your PC it won't be usable for Time Machine?</p><p></p><p>To reformat the drive, attach it to your Mac and use Disk Utility to erase it and partition\format it for MS DOS (FAT-32).</p><p></p><p>You can also use third party software such as the free Linux GParted to do the partitioning and formatting.</p><p></p><p>Regards.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 721690, member: 46727"] When the drive was setup for Time Machine it was formatted as HFS+ which can not be accessed by a Windows PC. You do realize that if you reformat the drive to work with your PC it won't be usable for Time Machine? To reformat the drive, attach it to your Mac and use Disk Utility to erase it and partition\format it for MS DOS (FAT-32). You can also use third party software such as the free Linux GParted to do the partitioning and formatting. Regards. [/QUOTE]
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