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I have to erase & reformat WD Passport?
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<blockquote data-quote="cwa107" data-source="post: 566144" data-attributes="member: 24098"><p>It looks like your external drive is formatted as "FAT32", probably because you were looking to maintain compatibility with a Windows machine. Unfortunately, one of the cool things that SuperDuper does is make the volume bootable so that you can literally start your machine from the backup drive - it is an absolute clone. So, it wants your drive to be in the Mac's native HFS format (Mac OS Extended Journaled). </p><p></p><p>If you have data on this drive, SuperDuper will wipe it out either way. So, if you need to keep the data on that external drive, you either need to offload it elsewhere and format it, or get another drive that you can use for SuperDuper.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cwa107, post: 566144, member: 24098"] It looks like your external drive is formatted as "FAT32", probably because you were looking to maintain compatibility with a Windows machine. Unfortunately, one of the cool things that SuperDuper does is make the volume bootable so that you can literally start your machine from the backup drive - it is an absolute clone. So, it wants your drive to be in the Mac's native HFS format (Mac OS Extended Journaled). If you have data on this drive, SuperDuper will wipe it out either way. So, if you need to keep the data on that external drive, you either need to offload it elsewhere and format it, or get another drive that you can use for SuperDuper. [/QUOTE]
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