MY EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE WONT CONECT TO TIME MACHINE
MY EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE WONT CONECT TO TIME MACHINE
MacBook Pro 15″, OS X 10.11
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"MY EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE WONT CONECT TO TIME MACHINE"
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Using a Hard Drive with Time Machine in macOS 10.11
Format Anew to APFS:
To get a drive to be seen in Time Machine, mount it, or reformat it to macOSX Extended. Boot into Recovery Mode to perform this (Intel or Silicon).
In depth: What to Do:
Use Time Machine - and not a third party app. You would....
- Open: Disk Utility***
- Erase: the drive
- Format: with APFS format
***To Open Disk Utility: Boot in to Recovery Mode > Go to: Applications > Utilities
If you can't Erase it...
Mount the Hard Drive in Disk Utility:
While booted in Recovery Mode (Intel or Silicon), go to Disk Utility> tap the Hard Drive, then tap the Mount button. See if you can then perform the erase. Also, perform this upon installing it, if necessary. If it is already mounted, then unmount it and then remount it. See where you can go from there.