External Harddrive

[[Chris]]

Okay, SO. Im using OSX currently, BUT i was thinking of buying an external hard drive to use as a TIME MACHINE drive?

I want to back up everything before i reformat.

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[Johno]

So err, whats the question?

[Laurensh1]

back-up before reformat seems like a must to me?
Be sure to back-up your personal documents on more places!

[Stephen!]

I think he's asking whether it will work with Time Machine or not.

[Johno]

Ah, if that's the case then yeah - any old external hard drive can be used as a time machine drive I believe. I use a partition on my external as a time machine drive but I haven't used it in god knows how long.

off-topic: I love your signature Stephen haha

[xxMATTGxx]

When I owned a Mac I used a standard Western Digital external hard drive for time machine backups. I also even used it to put my music and other files on there from my main hard drive. It’s very easy to do via OSX.

[[Chris]]

Okay, Thanks Guys