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External HD - use as is or re-format?
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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1506677" data-attributes="member: 131855"><p>That's correct. Time Machine needs the drive to be formatted as hfs+ extended journaled. Here's a <a href="http://macs.about.com/od/applications/ss/diskutilformat_4.htm" target="_blank">How To</a> just in case you haven't done it before. If you choose to zero the drive in step 6 it can take quite some time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 1506677, member: 131855"] That's correct. Time Machine needs the drive to be formatted as hfs+ extended journaled. Here's a [URL="http://macs.about.com/od/applications/ss/diskutilformat_4.htm"]How To[/URL] just in case you haven't done it before. If you choose to zero the drive in step 6 it can take quite some time. [/QUOTE]
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