How to format an external hard drive for use with a Mac Most external hard drives you buy will come out of the box pre-formatted for a Windows computer (NTFS). If you have a Mac you should format the drive for your Mac first thing, before you start using it. This is not hard to do, …
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How to format an external hard drive for use with a Mac
January 5th, 2017 | Posted by in Backup | Fix | How-To | Mac | Maintenance | Tips - (Comments Off on How to format an external hard drive for use with a Mac)Hard Drive Problems
July 11th, 2011 | Posted by in Backup | Fix | How-To | Mac | Maintenance | Tips - (Comments Off on Hard Drive Problems)One of the worst things that can happen to a computer owner is to experience problems with your hard drive. If you experience even a minor problem you should not ignore it, but investgate it asap. Some problems can be fixed fairly easily early on (even with Apple’s Disk Utility for example) but like a tooth ache …
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Time Capsule ‘Hang’ Restore Problem & Backup Issues
July 1st, 2009 | Posted by in Backup | Mac | Maintenance | News - (1 Comments)I recently had a kind of bad experience with having to do a Restore from a Time Capsule. It was very frustrating, so I thought I’d post about this problem. Following Apple’s instructions exactly, I booted up from a Leopard Installer Disk, chose the “Restore from Time Machine backup” Utility…etc, and so far so good. It …
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What is Time Machine?
June 23rd, 2009 | Posted by in Backup | Mac - (Comments Off on What is Time Machine?)If you have Mac OS X Leopard (10.5.x) on your Mac guess what, you have Time Machine (its built in!) So whats Time Machine anyway? Well its the name of Apple’s automatic Backup software that just works! For most of my clients, its what I recommend. I found this very good, detailed step-by-step description on …
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