I cant reformat my time machine backup

#1
Snackguy

Posted 27 December 2011 - 04:07 AM

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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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#2
FOX_HOUND_Zero

Posted 24 February 2012 - 05:11 PM

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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!

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#3
toker

Posted 20 March 2012 - 06:26 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

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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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