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Mammer55 Author

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External Hard Drive Recognized as Time Machine Format

Years ago, I used this external hard drive to backup my Mac, and when I wanted to use the hard drive for normal file storage again, I just deleted all the backup files off the drive. Bad decision, this didn't completely format the hard drive of it being recognized with Time Machine. Every time I plug it into my mac, it has the Time Machine logo, and it only works on Macs, no Windows computers.

I would like to have it be recognized on every computer, but I don't want to format it of its data nor do I have a place to store all its contents so I can format it. Any other solutions?

Posted on Jan 26, 2022 5:54 AM

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tbirdvet

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Posted on Jan 26, 2022 6:31 AM

If using between Mac and Windows you probably want the format as ExFat. Not sure what data still remains on this drive but sounds like you already erased all the backup files so I would suggest just reformatting.

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