Help with time machine

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  1. Gadd, Dec 8, 2011

    Gadd macrumors newbie

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    I have recently bought a new WD world book 2Tb wireless back up drive, i was wondering how to set it up with time machine as every time i try to select it as a hard drive it says an unknown error occurred or that it is incompatible, i have tried various passwords and usernames on various forums, with no luck, do i need to update the firmware on the drive, if so, where from as this really isn't obvious from their website as there are about 3 different places you can register your device, none of them useful as far as i can see.

    thanks in advance :D
     
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  2. GGJstudios, Dec 8, 2011

    GGJstudios macrumors Westmere

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    How is the drive formatted? It needs to be HFS+ (Mac OS Extended (Journaled)) if you intend it to work with Time Machine.

    HFS+ (Hierarchical File System, a.k.a. Mac OS Extended)
    • Read/Write HFS+ from native Mac OS X
    • Required for Time Machine or Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper! backups of Mac internal hard drive.
      [*]To Read/Write HFS+ from Windows, Install MacDrive
      [*]To Read HFS+ (but not Write) from Windows, Install HFSExplorer
    • Maximum file size: 8EiB
    • Maximum volume size: 8EiB
     
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  3. johnhurley, Dec 9, 2011

    johnhurley macrumors 6502a

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    Go into disk utility application ( it is one of the utilities ) and reformat the drive ( erase it and create in mac os x format ).

    Can you hook it up directly to your machine ( skip the wireless part ) until you get if straightened out?
     
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  4. Tumbleweed666, Dec 9, 2011

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    Is this not a NAS drive? In which case AFAIK NAS is generally not compatible or supported with Time Machine?
     
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  5. tug, Dec 9, 2011

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    you say its wireless, have you tried setting it using airport utility yet?
     
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