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Will Time Machine Erase All Files On My Portable Hard Drive?
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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 811552" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>To partition the WD, go to Utilities, Disk Utility. Highlight the WD drive, erase it, and then create two partitions. Format one as HFS + (for Time Machine), format the second partition as MS DOS (FAT-32) for file storage.</p><p></p><p>See this web site. <a href="http://macs.about.com/lr/using_disk_utility/307999/2/" target="_blank">Link</a></p><p></p><p>Regards.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 811552, member: 46727"] To partition the WD, go to Utilities, Disk Utility. Highlight the WD drive, erase it, and then create two partitions. Format one as HFS + (for Time Machine), format the second partition as MS DOS (FAT-32) for file storage. See this web site. [URL="http://macs.about.com/lr/using_disk_utility/307999/2/"]Link[/URL] Regards. [/QUOTE]
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