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<blockquote data-quote="quasiegg" data-source="post: 1358602" data-attributes="member: 234472"><p>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... </p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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?</p><p></p><p>I might be missing something obvious here, new mac user</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="quasiegg, post: 1358602, member: 234472"] 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 [/QUOTE]
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