HT201250: Use Time Machine to back up or restore your Mac
Learn about Use Time Machine to back up or restore your Mac
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Aug 31, 2014 5:22 AM in response to ffemt264by LaPastenague,★HelpfulWork and effort are always required where windows is involved.
Particularly when you mix it with Apple.
Can you access the TC hard drive at all from the Dell??
If not please load the airport utility for windows.. 5.6.1 available for download. It has several useful programs as part of it.
Bonjour for windows and disk agent.
Then simply type the TC name (if it is SMB compatible ie short, no spaces and pure alphanumeric) into the windows explorer address bar.
\\TCname
Of course if your TC name is
Fred Blog's Airport Time Capsule.
That will never work so I always recommend you give it a name windows can understand.. eg TCgenx
You can however use the IP address if it is static.
\\10.0.1.1 by default in router mode.. it is useless to use IP if it changes however.
Mixing TM backups with windows backups is not a great idea since the TC cannot be partitioned but you can add a USB drive.
Also you need to find a suitable backup software.. windows inbuilt backup is a shocker.. and useless if it is home version OS.. MS built it without ability to handle network. But there are a zillion windows backup softwares.. most are network aware.