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<blockquote data-quote="BluR930" data-source="post: 712189" data-attributes="member: 59495"><p><strong>Time Machine and External Hard Drives</strong></p><p></p><p>External hard drives and I do not get along. I just got a new external HD because I realized my old one was too small. I plug it in my PC (XP) to make sure it's working and it does. I decide to wait to back up my backup my PC because I know Time Machine requires you to delete everything on it anyway. So today I set up time machine and all that. Very easy but took a little bit of time. I go to plug it back into my PC and it no longer works. I hear the external HD spinning and the light turns on, but nothing is popping up in "my computer". I know I have enough power because it's plugged into an outlet. </p><p></p><p>I got to Disk Management and this is how it looks:</p><p></p><p><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v303/BluR930/ExternalHD.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>I'm convinced this has something to do with the Time Machine back up. It was working fine yesterday and it says that "GPT Protective Partition" thing. I have a feeling that's what is keeping it from showing up. </p><p></p><p>Please help, thank you very much.</p><p></p><p>Edit: Just to clarify, I have a desktop PC that's XP and a Macbook.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BluR930, post: 712189, member: 59495"] [b]Time Machine and External Hard Drives[/b] External hard drives and I do not get along. I just got a new external HD because I realized my old one was too small. I plug it in my PC (XP) to make sure it's working and it does. I decide to wait to back up my backup my PC because I know Time Machine requires you to delete everything on it anyway. So today I set up time machine and all that. Very easy but took a little bit of time. I go to plug it back into my PC and it no longer works. I hear the external HD spinning and the light turns on, but nothing is popping up in "my computer". I know I have enough power because it's plugged into an outlet. I got to Disk Management and this is how it looks: [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v303/BluR930/ExternalHD.jpg[/IMG] I'm convinced this has something to do with the Time Machine back up. It was working fine yesterday and it says that "GPT Protective Partition" thing. I have a feeling that's what is keeping it from showing up. Please help, thank you very much. Edit: Just to clarify, I have a desktop PC that's XP and a Macbook. [/QUOTE]
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