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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 892795" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>The new 1TB Mybook is likely already formatted at the factory as NTFS. (You will need to double check it though to make sure.) Which means you can just plug it into your PC and start transferring whatever data you wish.</p><p></p><p>However, neither a NTFS or FAT-32 formatted drive will work with Time Machine. Time Machine will only back up to a drive formatted as HFS+. It therefore depends on how you want to use the new drive. </p><p></p><p>If you want to use the drive both as storage and for Time Machine, you'll have to partition it so that one half will remain as NTFS, the other half HFS+. Also keep in mind that without a third party driver, OS X can only read NTFS but not write to it.</p><p></p><p>Regards.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 892795, member: 46727"] The new 1TB Mybook is likely already formatted at the factory as NTFS. (You will need to double check it though to make sure.) Which means you can just plug it into your PC and start transferring whatever data you wish. However, neither a NTFS or FAT-32 formatted drive will work with Time Machine. Time Machine will only back up to a drive formatted as HFS+. It therefore depends on how you want to use the new drive. If you want to use the drive both as storage and for Time Machine, you'll have to partition it so that one half will remain as NTFS, the other half HFS+. Also keep in mind that without a third party driver, OS X can only read NTFS but not write to it. Regards. [/QUOTE]
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