Time Machine won't recognize new external hard drive

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Time Machine won't recognize new external hard drive

I recently had a problem with My Passport and had to buy a new one. I have plugged it in and reformatted it and now Time Machine won't recognize it even though it shows on my desktop and the disk utility doesn't see any problem. Any ideas?

Posted on Oct 1, 2012 4:05 AM

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Answer 1

Oct 1, 2012 4:57 AM in response to AdeleS

Did you choose HFS+ as file system for the external hard drive?

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Oct 1, 2012 6:58 AM in response to Alberto Ravasio

I reformatted and used Mac OS Extended (Journaled).

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Oct 1, 2012 7:03 AM in response to AdeleS

Disable Time Machine from System Preferences.

Choose Select disk button, remove the old TM backup disk and add the new one.

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AdeleS Author

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Oct 1, 2012 7:24 AM in response to Alberto Ravasio

Oh so easy! Thank you so much 🙂

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