Should I reformat a external drive for time machine to work?

I am setting up a new time machine for a new MacBook Pro and am going to use a drive that I previously used for backing up a windows computer. Will I need to reformat to drive. I assume I will have to.

iWork-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Jan 18, 2014 7:40 PM

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