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Hard Drive Time Machine Question

  • 26-04-2008 1:17pm
    #1
    swingking
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,258 ✭✭✭


    I have a 160 gb external hard drive that I use a time machine back up device for leopard. I was trying to use this to store files I had on a windows machine and it wouldn't recognise it.

    I read up on this and found out that mac computers format the drives in a particular way to use it for time machine backups. This is not recognised by windows

    My question is-- Is there a way to format a hard drive so that it can be used as a portable storage device as well as being used as a time machine backup device? Can you create a seperate partition?


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  • #2
    swingking
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,258 ✭✭✭swingking


    great thanks I'll give that a try.


  • #3
    Sad Professor
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    Nah that won't work I'm afraid. Time Machine will only back up to a HFS+ formatted drive. But yes you can partition the drive in two; just format one partition in FAT32 and the other in HFS+ (Journaled) for Time Machine. You can use Disk Utility to do this.


  • #4
    mathew
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    MacDrive is what you need. It allows windows to recognise a mac formated drive. Incredibly handy!
    http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/


  • #5
    swingking
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,258 ✭✭✭swingking


    Sad Professor wrote: »
    Nah that won't work I'm afraid. Time Machine will only back up to a HFS+ formatted drive. But yes you can partition the drive in two; just format one partition in FAT32 and the other in HFS+ (Journaled) for Time Machine. You can use Disk Utility to do this.

    eh... how do I do this :o


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