Hard Drive Not Showing Up In Time Machine
Hey guys, having a bit of trouble with Time Machine. I have a 2TB external Seagate HDD in which there are two partitions (1 ExFAT and 1 Mac OS Extended Journaled as per Disk Utility). The drive connects fine and I see it mounted in my Finder sidebar and on my desktop, and I'm able to drag and drop files into it or out of it.
However, I'm looking to use the Mac OS Extended partition for Time Machine backups as well but although I can see the drive showing in the above mentioned locations however when I try to select a disk for time machine to be set up, the drive/partition is not showing up at all. I checked the advanced settings and it is not an excluded drive. I've also ensured that there is more than enough space on the partition for the backup. What is wrong here, and how can I fix this? I am on Mac OS Monterey 12.1, running on my old Early 2015 13" MBP.
Thanks in advance!
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 12.1