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I cant reformat my time machine backup My WD Passport wont backup so i wanna reformat it (Erase it)

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I plugged in my external hard drive to back up my macbook pro. But time machine wouldnt backup and it didnt tell me why.

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Hi!!..

Try using a Windows PC to erase the HD... :)

Since the HFS format is not recognized by Windows, it will automatically tells you that is needs to be formated in order to read....

After doing that, go to your Mac and reformat in HFS+

If that doesn't work... try using DiskWarrior or Drive Genius to check the integrity of the HD.

Let us know.

Cheers!

This post has been edited by FOX_HOUND_Zero: 24 February 2012 - 05:14 PM

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Here is what I suggest: do not use any apple GUI tools ( I would also suggest not using a mac at all, EVER... lol ;) )

plugin the drive
umount it
re-partition it with parted or fdisk
create your file system (do not create apple bs file systems, I would go for ext3 or 4)
done
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