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Time Machine doesn't recognize my hard disk after initializing with OS journey extension

I have a MacBook Pro M1 from 2021 and I’m trying to do the back up so I took one of my hard disk and I try to delete the previous break up. There were still in progress, but system didn’t let me to move to the bin so I initialized the hard disk with the extension OS journey, but now when I select the option in time machine, it doesn’t show me this are disk. How can I solve the problem?



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MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 13.5

Posted on Feb 24, 2025 10:16 PM

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Posted on Feb 25, 2025 2:11 AM

To use an external Drive for Time Machine Backup, it would be expecting an APFS / GUID Partition Map


Erase and reformat a storage device in Disk Utility on Mac


File system formats available in Disk Utility on Mac

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