I have a macbook pro (leopard) and I have a iomega portable hardrive, this one: http://store.iomega.com/section?SID=80454207e7cfaaeeaac499e5635e010bd06:4760&secid=39516
I have a wireless router which I would like to connect my portable hardrive to so that I can use time machine on my mac wirelessly to back up my computer.
I need direction on how to do this.
One glitch is that the portable hardrive is currently formatted to a PC. Is it possible to reformat it so a mac can write on it? I need really specific instructions on this, as I have no idea how to!
Thank you so much in advance to any person who replies![]()
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blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso
It's my under standing that you will need it directly connected to your mac. It would be faster too. Use the disk utility under your Applications/utilities to format the HD. If you need to have access by PC keep the format the way it is.
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No guarantees but I believe that in theory like the Airport Extreme Basestation can do, if you have a router with a usb port that supports attaching a usb harddrive and using it as a NAS harddrive, you can probably set time machine to back up to that harddrive.
Once again, just speculation and no guarentees
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Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by Dana, Dec 28, 2008.