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Do I need to partition my hard drive to use Airport to back up my files on my iMac intel?

Airport Utility was pre-installed on my iMac (Intel) and I don't know how to use Time Machine with Airport. I want to backup my hard drive and thought that Time Machine would do this. I receive a message to select a Backup Disc. Do I have to partition my hard drive to have the backup on my iMac? Alternately I could purchase an external hard drive with USB 3.0. Would Time Machine detect the USB external drive so that I could select that as the Backup Disc? Are there any cons for Apple wireless hard drives?

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Posted on Aug 24, 2012 10:40 PM

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Posted on Aug 24, 2012 10:44 PM

For a Better Understanding of Time Machine... See Here...


http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427


More Info Here... > http://pondini.org/OSX/Home.html

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Aug 24, 2012 10:50 PM in response to rena3695

The idea with Time machine is to use it to back up to an external drive. Once connected you would tell Time Machine to use that drive.


However before you do that, connect the external drive and open Disk Utility

1. Click on the external drive

2. Click on the Erase tab and select Mac OS extended, Journaled.

3. Click Apply


When finished it will be formatted correctly and then open Time machine and tell it to use it as the Time machine backup disk.



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Do I need to partition my hard drive to use Airport to back up my files on my iMac intel?

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