Re: Formatting an external drive

2014-01-07 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Daniel, Well everything for the most part worked great, as I was able to repartian the drive in to 2 drives, one for Time Machine and one for me to back up and have access to all of my files. Both went successful. The only problem, and I am not sure if it is a problem is when I went to get

Re: Formatting an external drive

2014-01-07 Thread Daniel C
Glad I could help. In regards to your issue, it might be because it should have been able to have been formatted to Mac Extended Journelled. But it's possible that why it never formatted to that originally was because you may need to go to the erase tab, erase the drive, then re-partition the

Formatting an external drive

2014-01-06 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, I finally got around to ordering a new external hard drive, as the Seagate I ordered wouldn't mount successfully, ends up that is a common issue with seagate drives. So I ordered a My Passport drive for Mac, and of course it shows up set up for Windows NTFS. I can't win. So I want to

Re: Formatting an external drive

2014-01-06 Thread Daniel Chavez
I have the same setup as you’d like to have. How I did it was. 1. I plugged in my drive and went to disk utility. 2. I went to the partition tab, and in the disk table, I selected the 2 TB WD My Passport 0748 Media drive. 3. I clicked on the partition layout button, and selected 2 partitions. 4.

Re: Formatting an external drive

2014-01-06 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Daniel, Thanks. I went ahead and played around with it after doing a google search. I think I selected all the right options, but will have to check after Time Machine finishes. I am not sure if I selected GDUI or the other mac option, it was automatically set to windows which is strange

Re: Formatting an external drive

2014-01-06 Thread Daniel Chavez
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