How To Access Windows External HD for Time Machine?

[Nick12945]

I have a computer running Windows XP with a external hard drive attached to it. Is there a way to access this hard drive on my mac for use with Time Machine? I'm using a wireless network.

[MacDawg]

No... it would have to be formatted as HFS+

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[aristobrat]

I've had no problems having my work Mac do Time Machine backups to a Windows server that has shared drives available. Time Machine puts everything in a spare image file on the Windows network drive, which I guess gets around the limitations that NTFS/FAT has.


I set it up a few months ago, but it wasn't too complex. Try googling for "time machine backup smb" or something like that.

[MacDawg]

^^^^^
Then I may stand to be corrected

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[r.j.s]

Here (http://www.jasonhdavis.com/blog/2008/08/network-drive-backup-with-time-machine-backup-to-ntfs-windows-xp-and-vista/) you go.