Please help if you can! I bought a 1TB EHD (Acom Data Pure Drive) it is wired to my iMac and has backed up the IMac beautifully using Time Machine. This computer is hooked to a Linksys router. My question.... I also have a MacBook Pro laptop that I would like to back up on the same EHD. Is that possible? Should the EHD be connected to the router, instead of the iMac?
When I try to back up the laptop it doesn't "see" the EHD at all so the EHD has no router or wireless capabilities, I am assuming... When I try to back up the Macbook and use Time Machine it asks if I want to use "Time Capsule" and searches. It does not give me the option of "which disk would you like to back up these files"?
Obviously, I have no idea what I am doing! I love the Apple products but I am very new to them. I didn't buy the Time Capsule due to price and horrible reviews. This EHD can be returned if need be but it did a beautiful (and fast) job backing up the iMac. I would like to save the money and make it work if that is possible.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
When I try to back up the laptop it doesn't "see" the EHD at all so the EHD has no router or wireless capabilities, I am assuming... When I try to back up the Macbook and use Time Machine it asks if I want to use "Time Capsule" and searches. It does not give me the option of "which disk would you like to back up these files"?
Obviously, I have no idea what I am doing! I love the Apple products but I am very new to them. I didn't buy the Time Capsule due to price and horrible reviews. This EHD can be returned if need be but it did a beautiful (and fast) job backing up the iMac. I would like to save the money and make it work if that is possible.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!