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• How can I know if an external drive has been used for Time Machine and what computer it came with too?

  How can I know if an external drive has been used for Time Machine and what computer it came with too?

  I have several laptops and iMacs. I spent the relocation of the year and only used the MacBook Pro.

  Now I'm trying to figure out which drive goes with which computer

  I connected just a disk seagate 1.5 t and the first thing he did was to ask if I wanted to use it as a Time Machine drive.

  (1) if it is the TM disk accompanying this computer don't would not it have just started upward automatically?

  (2) what happens if I would have said yes?

  (3) I don't even know if it's been activated for TM. Is there a way to tell? It may hold just for iMovie files and other programs associated with a computer from my past.

  All readers of backup Time Machine contains a folder named: Backups.backupdb. If you open this folder, you'll find another folder with the name of the computer that has been saved. If several computers have been saved on the same disk, you will have several folders.

• When you try to transfer a file of 8 GB on external hard drive 'file too large for the destination system message' to get there is that much space on disk

  When you try to transfer a file of 8 GB on external hard drive 'file too large for the destination system message' to get there is that much space on disk

  Hello

  Discs formatted with the FAT be limited to files with a maximum of 4 GB. You can format outside
  drive drive with NTFS, contact the manufacturer if necessary pilot or split the file into parts under
  at 4 GB.

  Overview of FAT, HPFS, and NTFS file systems
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/100108

  How to go beyond the limit of 4 GB on FAT32
  http://lazybit.com/index.php/2007/03/01/how_to_get_over_the_4gb_limit_fat32

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• trying to find compatible 1 TB external hard drive 2 TB capatible for backup of Lenovo T510

  I'm trying to understand what high speed 1 or 2 TB capatible external hard drive that I could buy - and if I can 'use' a USB 3 or if I'm stuck with USB 2.  Have you looked at LaCie and Verbatim discs... suggestions appreciated... I do not know what a PCIE card, etc. is...

  The Rosewill and others like it, are empty envelopes.  You install a HD 3.5 "SATA inside.  There are other - smaller - units that can use a 2.5 drive "a laptop.  These enclosures support different ways to connect to a laptop (or desktop): USB 2, 3 USB, eSATA, depending on the chosen box.  The boxes for disks 3.5 "have generally also a brick or"wall-wart"power supply.  2.5 boxes "sometimes do and sometimes are powered via the USB port.

  There are also many complete devices that provide an enclosure with a drive that is already installed.  They tend to be "prettier" and well integrated.  Also usually more expensive than a speaker + HD purchased separately (this varies) and in my experience, tend to run hot.

  You may prefer the comfort of a one-piece integrated solution, but I like the flexibility of an envelope + HD with my choice.

  [edit] The units come often (always?) with the included HD already formatted.  A speaker + HD provided by the user will require drive initializing and formatting.  A blank disc will at times be initialized in victory disk management by using the USB connection, before we see via the eSATA connection.  I don't know if it's a quirk of my speakers, readers, or Windows.  Just a heads-up.

  Z.

• what external hard drive to I buy for an old pc from windows xp. (6) few data. ?

  Hello
  I have an old pc running windows xp and I was about to buy a new, but I need to buy an external hard drive so that I can delete my files and save.  Which option of external hard drive should I buy? I was going to buy the g-drive slim because I'll probably buy a mac in the future. Can I use the g-drive slim to transfer files from pc to mac. To do this, announced that she has been made a Mac. Help

  Hello

  The G-drive slim works with the following operating system mentioned below.

  ·         ® For Mac OS 10.5 or later and an available USB 2.0 port

  ·         Windows® 2000/XP/Vista/7

  For more information, see:

  http://www.g-technology.com/products/g-drive-slim.cfm

  All the disk USB 2.0 external works with Windows XP. You can also use well G drive slim with Windows XP. If you want to buy another external drive you could get in contact with the tech shop or online the nearest suitable external hard drive search.

• I have a WD external hard drive that I used for a while and all of a sudden I can't.

  The device is a USB connected external hard drive. I used it on a regular basis until today. When I connect it it seems to connect (it lights up), and when he did it before she would open a window that would ask if I wanted to open and examine its contents. It does not now. When I go to Start computer it is no longer present upward with the other HD etc. I took it on another computer and it worked fine. I wonder if a driver does not work?

  Restore points should be back fairly in time, if you have enabled the restoration of the system.

  Read the information contained in the links I provided. about how to use system restore.

  You do not accept the available Restore Point.

  Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

• How can I make external hard drive, the restore points for windows 7

  Dear experts,
  My laptop Dell Studio 1558, pieces of 7,64 edition windows Home premium. I want to use external drive hard/Pen drives to achieve and many restore points. I have seagate Free Agent GoFlex 320GB.andTranscend JetFlash Pendrives 16 GB external hard drive. Is it possible to do in both of these external gadgets, restore points? Please specify the procedures in detail.
  Thank you very much.

  We must be clear on what you mean by "Restore Point."

  If by a restore point that you refer to the small key files backup made before a system change, it must be stored in the folder System Volume Information hidden on the hard disk the file is actually required, you can't edit this storage point (usually drive c :)). The only option you have is to set the amount of space to reserve for this purpose. Once you have defined, which then restore points are organized on a FIFO basis where when the space is too full for a new restore point the oldest is deposited.

  The alternative is going to be an image of the system. This will obviously be very wide for each backup, so if you want to do a number then you consider doing incremental backups. This way to make a complete and regular backup then or event based backup only the files that have changed. These backups are also defined as available points in the system restore utility.

• Windows 7 asks Me to format the Seagate FreeAgent external hard drive I've used for more than a month

  I used Seagate FreeAgent as my external hard drive for more than a month now, but recently I am unable to access Windows 7 asks me to format it to use it. Somehow I can format the HDD without losing my data?  Or does perform a work around?

  Hi NuVille,

  Before perform us any of the steps, first of all I suggest you to create a backup of the data stored in your external hard drive on another computer.

  To save the data, you can connect your external hard drive on another computer and copy all the files and folders on the other computer. Later, you can connect the external drive to the Windows 7 computer and try to run the disk error checking and check if that helps you solve the problem.

  Access the link below and follow the steps to check the drive for errors and fix it.
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/check-a-drive-for-errors

  After completing the disc you error checking, try to check if you can access the drive.

  If the steps above do not I suggest you try to format the hard drive. Access the link below and follow the steps to format the hard drive.
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/create-and-format-a-hard-disk-partition

  Note: there is no way to format without losing any data on the disk. Formatting the drive will erase all data.  This is why you must back up the data before formatting the hard drive.

  I hope this helps. Let us know the results.

  Thank you and best regards,

  Srinivas R Microsoft technical support.
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• External network drive helps to work with Time Machine

  I did research on my brain for the last 2 days on this subject, because I have to remove a ton of material from my laptop before he goes kaput (spoke yesterday on another post)

  Here's the plan... I think so:

  I want to move photos, films (home movies not DVD) and the iTunes library from my MacBook Pro to an external HD attached to the wifi router, so I don't have to be hard wired to access photos, music, etc., then at home.

  I want to continue using Time Machine to back up a) my laptop and b) the files moved to the external hard drive.

  This will require a SECOND external drive.

  My understanding is that this is possible if the SECOND external drive is connected ONLY to an 802.11ac Apple Airport. No other wifi router will not work.

  The airport could be connected by ethernet to an existing Netgear wifi router that Comcast installed in order to manipulation of our home security system.

  Is this possible? It is frying my brain.

  Or...

  I do one) get a time Capsule 2 TB,

  (b) plug on the Netgear

  (c) to charge all my top media and

  (d) connect a 3 TB drive in the time Capsule to back up what is on it and my laptop?

  Does it work?

  It kills me.

• How can I save my MacBook Pro on the external hard drive that I use for my iMac?

  Don't use much of my MacBook Pro, I plan to use it a lot. It has not been saved, but I want to start the backup on the external drive that I use for my backups of the iMac. I don't know what Airport Express or what it means by creating a base station. Any help out there?

  Hello

  You can try:

  (1) open system preferences.

  (2) then click time machine.

  (3) select your external drive, and then click use drive.

• How to replace the internal hard drive and continue with existing Time Machine backups

  I have a time Machine airport TB 3 attached to the Ethernet port on my mid-2010 MacBook Pro 7.1. It has a 1 TB internal SSD I want to use Carbon Copy Cloner to a 2 TB OWC drive. The last time I did it, I had to start my Time Machine backups.

  
  

  Is it possible to find 1 the UUID the new SSD, and 2-implementation to date, some sort of Time Machine (perhaps with TMUTIL) 3 information - should allow continuity with the existing backups?

  
  

  T hank you

  I've not had to do this, but a lot of articles about it.

  OS X Yosemite: If you want a new Mac "inherit" your backup history

  http://www.creativetechsupport.com/help/it/install/TimeMachine-inherit.html

  http://pondini.org/TM/B5.html

  If you clone a drive, migrating from an old record, etc., these articles should give you an overview. Special attention to the second article on combining a new drive for a TM backup.

• cannot delete an external hard drive. stuck to decrypt for hours

  I tried to erase and reuse a disk that was previously encrypted.  Disk utility tells me.

  Clear process failed:

  Dismounting drive, could not open the device. Operation failed... »

  I tried several suggestions from other threads, as drive reboot, restart computer, terminal commands.

  The the terminal commands that worked for others used sudo, but all that entered with sudo request my password, but then nothing that I type in the show even upward.

  Have deleted everything on the disc using the Finder, I receive a new empty file called System.

  Finally, I tried decrypting that happened for hours even if there is nothing else the file system to empty the disk.

  Any suggestions?

  I tried to respond to that to explain how it worked but it never published and there was a warning that "gray someone has been banned", I don't know what's happened since as I answered my same MacBook pro, but I'll try again.

  ******************************************************************************** **************

  After 8 hours, I think that it finished finally decipher and I was able to use disk utility to erase.

  So in case anyone else has this problem, I suggest that you may need to wait several hours so he can decipher and then another? hours to encrypt again. I don't know how long because I fell asleep.

• I can't get my new WD external hard drive to work with Time Machine.

  My Seagate 1 TB external hard drive, connected to my Airport Extreme, use the USB port, was completed (it stores up to 3 1 iMac and MBP), so I bought a Western Digital 2 TB hard drive to replace it. I formatted correctly, connected to my MBP, then connected to the Airport Extreme. When I opened the time Machine, it didn't appear. By selecting "Set up the new TimeCapsule" open Airport utility. By clicking on the router button gave me change. By clicking on the "Record" button showed my new hard drive. The "setup" button is grayed out, unless I unchecked and double-checked all of the options. He warned me that I would be offline for a while, but it did nothing; My wife MBP and MBP my son not a never lose their connection to the internet, and I lose mine, either.

  My Mac guy, who never met a problem he couldn't fix it, is puzzled. So I am. We tried all the usual ideas, restart my MBP, restart the Airport Extreme, reformat the external hard drive, with different numbers of partitions (and Yes, I chose the GUID), but we can not simply Time Machine to connect with the hard drive. It is a Western Digital My Passport Ultra. This external hard drive is not compatible with Time Machine?

  What version is your AE? Backup is supported only on the sector of Tower model.

  You are self feeding Ultra Passport? It really must be external powered... or plugged into a powered hub.

  My passport readers have been consistent in the past... but sometimes strange things... That is, they can change the USB chip without warning, resulting in questions. The USB hub can help.

  There is also something... Plug the USB key into one of your computers and start backup TM on this... proceed very long... but we need to start... Cancel backup... and then plug it into AE and see what happens.

• External hard drive - Time Machine

  Hello.  I've been using Time Machine to backup my Mac Book Air on an external hard drive.  I have the latest OS - El Capitan 10.11.  Last night, I had to wipe my hard drive clean due to a third-party program of non-working that prevented me to connect to the network from my job.  I reinstalled the program today and I was able to enter the network from my job, but I am unable to restore all backups of my external hard drive on my laptop.  Time Machine does not give me the option to view all the backups that I know are there, although I can see the backups when I use Finder to view the external player.  I don't want to do a full restore, because I don't want to restore the third-party program of non-working.  I'm mainly interested in restoring my personal files and iPhoto iMovie.  Help, please!

  It is clear to me, what is the problem, but I bet the answer is here:

  http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html

• Implementation of new iMac in late 2006 iMac and external hard drive

  I have a late 2006 iMac 2.16 GHz intel core 2 duo with 2.5 GB which I Lion 10.7.5.  I don't think I can improve operating systems, or more if they are not compatible.  I have an external hard drive that stores my photos, music etc I just ran out of space on iMac.  I decided to upgrade to the new iMac.  I thought that I would be able to plug in my external hard drive which has also my Time Machine backup and all the news would move to the new iMac.  However, the external hard drive is Firewire 800.  I connect it to the old iMac with adapter on the Firewire 400 port.  The new iMac has USB3.

  1. How can I connect external drive to the new iMac?  You can get a Firewire 800 cable USB3 (online research I don't think)

  2 read online it seems to say that you need to update your software on your old iMac to match the new iMac otherwise the time Machine can not read information correctly.  It is not possible on the old iMac, what should I do?

  I'm looking at my beautiful new iMac and the have not yet enabled.

  The cable would probably be Thunderbolt to FireWire, check the available adapters

  to see what should be the part. You would not upgraded an outdated old

  Mac for a last OS X when he cannot go. Use the Migration Wizard or

  migrate after installation. Some of these older applications or documents created

  can be updated easily; Some may require conversion. Depending on your files.

  The manual method is sometimes preferred. A new computer may balk

  a lot of stuff which is reduced to an antique.

  • OS X: manually migrating the data from another Mac - Apple Support

  You may reflected on this article:

  • Move your content to a new Mac - Apple Support

  https://support.Apple.com/en-us/HT204350

  If you have a time Machine, there are several articles on how to use it,

  How to upgrade and so on. -A classic example of the info source is here:

  • Apple OS X and Time Machine tips:

  http://www.pondini.org/OSX/home.html

  • If you cannot back up or restore your Mac with Time Machine - Apple Support

  Good luck!