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Western Digital MyBook unable to use for Time Machine
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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 1064814" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>Your My Book WD hard drive is likely formatted to NTFS. That's why you can not create a folder on it from OS X since by default NTFS is read only. You can however, copy from a NTFS drive to OS X.</p><p></p><p>In order to use the drive for Time Machine it will have to be erased and reformatted as HFS+ Extended Journaled. Be sure to remove everything you need from the drive first before allowing Time Machine to format for its use.</p><p></p><p>Regards.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 1064814, member: 46727"] Your My Book WD hard drive is likely formatted to NTFS. That's why you can not create a folder on it from OS X since by default NTFS is read only. You can however, copy from a NTFS drive to OS X. In order to use the drive for Time Machine it will have to be erased and reformatted as HFS+ Extended Journaled. Be sure to remove everything you need from the drive first before allowing Time Machine to format for its use. Regards. [/QUOTE]
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