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<blockquote data-quote="greengoddess" data-source="post: 1324375" data-attributes="member: 222782">Hi everyone,I have just switched from a PC running XP to a new iMac running Lion. I have just bought a 2TB external HDD so that I can use Time Machine. I would like Time Machine to be able to back up not only the system HDD but also my existing external HDD that contains 1000's of photos.The problem is, I can't see how to get Time Machine to do this. I read somewhere that the external HDD to be backed up must be formatted in a certain way so that Time Machine can work with it. Is this true? The drive is currently formatted as NTFS.If that's the problem, what format do I change it to?Lastly, I have a couple of very large video files on the NTFS disk which are around 10GB in size. If I reformat the disk to a format that Time Machine can recognise, will it be able to support files this large?I really appreciate your help.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="greengoddess, post: 1324375, member: 222782"] Hi everyone, I have just switched from a PC running XP to a new iMac running Lion. I have just bought a 2TB external HDD so that I can use Time Machine. I would like Time Machine to be able to back up not only the system HDD but also my existing external HDD that contains 1000's of photos. The problem is, I can't see how to get Time Machine to do this. I read somewhere that the external HDD to be backed up must be formatted in a certain way so that Time Machine can work with it. Is this true? The drive is currently formatted as NTFS. If that's the problem, what format do I change it to? Lastly, I have a couple of very large video files on the NTFS disk which are around 10GB in size. If I reformat the disk to a format that Time Machine can recognise, will it be able to support files this large? I really appreciate your help. [/QUOTE]

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