I previously backed up my files to another external hard drive. Do I need to delete that external hard drive from Time Machine before connecting this new hard drive?
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No.......Just select the drive you want to use when backing up on Time Machine
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No, just simply "Select" the WD My Passbook hard drive as your storage device of choice.
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I would not delete the drive. I would remove it and date that it was used for backing up until a certain date. I would then set up the new drive with time machine. FYI, I keep one external drive for my photos etc. and a different drive for time machine. My time machine drive backs up my computer and the external drive of my photos. Hope that helps.
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I am planing to use my hard drive I had on my old computer which is a 250 gb hard drive and I am getting a external hard drive sheil for it and use it as a back up for my computer, I have a 750 gh Hard drive and don't need 2 hard drive on my computerWalter
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Yes, you can use Seagate or any other external hard drive with Mac's Time Machine. As you already may know when shutting down the computer, you must first eject the external hard drive first. You place your mouse on the hard drive Icon and right click and a list drops down saying eject. Here's the thing, sometimes the time machine is busy doing something. You can force eject but this seems to damage the external drive somewhat. Mine will occasionally stop working. I must then reboot the computer and everything is fine.
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yes if you want to transfer your old info off of your old hard drive. in my case, my old hard drive was completely broke. so i couldn't transfer any info if i wanted to.
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no you will need to buy that separate or buy a hard drive enclosure, i personally purchased one that is 3.0 usb for faster transfer speed.
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This drive can be partitioned, no problem. However it is recommended by Apple that you do not use a partitioned hard drive for time machine.
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Molley, hello: The ability to retrive data from an inoperable hard drive depends on a number of things. The most important factor, in my opinion, is whether you've waited too long to retrieve data; as a result, some or all data files may have become unretrievable. Assuming that you've not waited too long and thereby not compromised data, I recommend that you buy and try the NewerTech universal device. My "external" hard drive (on a Mac platform and OS) had been clicking quietly for a week without engaging; it was unable to back up files as scheduled. I ordered, received, and utilized the NewerTech universal drive adapter. On my first connection and try, the adapter recognized my external hard drive, located all the files on it, and accepted my request to transfer those files to a new external hard drive replacement. I was happily surprised that all files were located and transferred with no loss. There's no guarantee that the NewerTech Universal adapter will be successful. If I were you, I wouldn't wait any longer; neither would I send the drive to a facility that attempts to retrive files because of the cost of doing so; I'd but the NewerTech USB 3.0 Universal device. HTH. Warren
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If I recall correctly (this was awhile ago), I couldn't use it for Time Machine because it was a networked drive, and Time Machine was looking for a drive that was hardwired to the Mac.
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THANK YOU!! I didn't know how to get my expansion disk to accept back up information until I read your post and once I used Time Machine to format, everything copied quickly and easily. So again, THANK YOU!!
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There was software included, presumably a backup program. I formatted the disk and use time machine to do my backups.
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Not an expert on this, but after my own recent unbacked-up-data-loss fiasco, I *believe* Time Machine (part of Apple OS X) not only backs up each item---text file, photo, song, movie, etc.---on your computer, but creates a whole copy ("image") of the complete contents of your computer---including apps. In the event of data-loss disaster, you can simply restore your complete computer the way it was.This drive's features list describes it "Time Machine ready"
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I did exactly this, without problems. The drives weren't even the same, one was 2 years old and full of data and the other one new.
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I think it has to be connetced to your phone in order to backup. I don't have info regarding use with external hard drive. Sorry.
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No, but you can use windows easy transfer application to backup and restore your data from old hard drive to new one.Hope that answers your question.
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No, you can direct connect you machine to the Time Capsule. I use wireless backup though, and it's great!
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I'm not a regular Mac user, so cannot answer this question with 100% certainty. To streamline the backup process, Apple has made it a bit challenging to use Time Machine with a network drive. To have Time Machine back up to the USB connected network drive you would have to create a HFS+ disk image, mount it to its permanent home, and point Time Machine there.
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There is a way to swap files, but why did the computer fail??? If it was due to a virus, you'll unfortunately be swapping that to the new computer.If not, your in luck, you can connect the hard drive as a slave to the new hard drive and download. Look on Cnet.com or instructibles.com to lead you the way.Good luck!! I know how much my files and docs. mean to me and I would hate for them to be corrupted - DVD storage is the way to go, unless you have access to a cloud.Hate to say this, but let this be a lesson learned, I lost allot of files I wish I still had from the late 90's and 2000's - Be smart and use external storage, Peace Brother or Sister There is a way to swap files, but why did the computer fail??? If it was due to a virus, you'll unfortunately be swapping that to the new computer.If not, your in luck, you can connect the hard drive as a slave to the new hard drive and download. Look on Cnet.com or instructibles.com to lead you the way.Good luck!! I know how much my files and docs. mean to me and I would hate for them to be corrupted - DVD storage is the way to go, unless you have access to a cloud.Hate to say this, but let this be a lesson learned, I lost allot of files I wish I still had from the... » Read More There is a way to swap files, but why did the computer fail??? If it was due to a virus, you'll unfortunately be swapping that to the new computer.If not, your in luck, you can connect the hard drive as a slave to the new hard drive and download. Look on Cnet.com or instructibles.com to lead you the way.Good luck!! I know how much my files and docs. mean to me and I would hate for them to be corrupted - DVD storage is the way to go, unless you have access to a cloud.Hate to say this, but let this be a lesson learned, I lost allot of files I wish I still had from the late 90's and 2000's - Be smart and use external storage, Peace Brother or Sister « Show Less