How to make your own external hard drive and use it with Time Machine
This tutorial teaches you how to take an old hard drive laying around your house and make use of it by turning it into an external hard drive. Once your former internal hard drive, you have to get an external enclosure. Ebay sells them pretty cheap.
Once you have your external enclosure, install your the hard drive into the enclosure and plug it into your Mac. From there you can grab all your old files if you like, but in this tutorial, I teach you how to thoroughly erase the hard drive with no detection of what was on it ever.
After you have erased the hard drive, you now can use it as a regular external hard drive. You just saved lots of money.
If you like to use it as a Time Machine drive, go ahead and go to spotlight, and type in time machine or select it from our dock and set up your new external hard drive with Time Machine.
Duration : 0:8:41
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July 30th, 2009 at 1:14 am
absolutely
absolutely
July 30th, 2009 at 1:14 am
i have an old …
i have an old garbage pc sitting around, is it possible to do the same?
July 30th, 2009 at 1:14 am
Yes because the …
Yes because the external head contains the head reader for the drive
July 30th, 2009 at 1:14 am
do you HAVE to use …
do you HAVE to use the external enclosure?
July 30th, 2009 at 1:14 am
ha.
ha.
July 30th, 2009 at 1:14 am
hahhahaha.. hence …
hahhahaha.. hence the word “time Machine” hahahaha nice!
July 30th, 2009 at 1:14 am
I thought this was …
I thought this was gonna tell me how to go back in time. I wanted to see dinosaurs. Oh well
July 30th, 2009 at 1:14 am
I am not an …
I am not an experienced user of Linuz at all. There OS is based on text commands that I’m not familiar with so I dont both using it. Even their installation can get tricky. when I installed Linuz Yellow Dog on my PS3, that was a little challenging. So, to make a long story short, I have no desire to install it on my MacBook and I’m not to keen of linux, so no tutorial my friend. Sorry. I would totally do it if I liked Linux.
July 30th, 2009 at 1:14 am
yea thats good. Do …
yea thats good. Do you have tutorial on how to do that or can you make one thanks!
July 30th, 2009 at 1:14 am
The partician would …
The partician would handle ubuntu with no probs! I have a good friend of mine with Ubuntu installed. Works awesome!
July 30th, 2009 at 1:14 am
How would you …
How would you partition the drive to handle ubuntu? i wanted to run separately on the mac but don’t when to mess it up. Can you help thanks.
July 30th, 2009 at 1:14 am
oh, ok. thanks!
oh, ok. thanks!
July 30th, 2009 at 1:14 am
fat 32 will work …
fat 32 will work for both though… but if you use it for time machine then partition it.
July 30th, 2009 at 1:14 am
Hmm… I see. …
Hmm… I see. Thanks for the advice!
July 30th, 2009 at 1:14 am
go to spotlight …
go to spotlight type disk utility, select the drive, and click partition. sorry took a while to respond
July 30th, 2009 at 1:14 am
thnx!
thnx!
July 30th, 2009 at 1:14 am
i like the new intro
i like the new intro
July 30th, 2009 at 1:14 am
You are an angle
i …
You are an angle
i was looking for my old HD yesterday to set it up as time machine and your tutorial just make it handy but i get disappointed as you haven’t show us who to make partitions
July 30th, 2009 at 1:14 am
What I would do …
What I would do honestly is partition the hard drive into two formats. 1 for Mac and the other for windows. I would do the windows side as fat 32. I would not do the entire hard drive as fat 32 though since some people report that you can’t transfer more than 6gb at a time. NTFS or fat 32 would also be fine since you would only use the windows partition for windows.
July 30th, 2009 at 1:14 am
wow, great video!- …
wow, great video!- so I’m getting a 1TB drive for time machine. I have a windows as well as a mac coming soon (my first! :D). FAT32 is the best option for compatability, right? are there any cons to using FAT32? thanks- and the video was more than a little useful, as always
July 30th, 2009 at 1:14 am
Thanks so much. I …
Thanks so much. I figured this would be useful for a lot of people, not just Now but in the future too. The way the economy is, not a lot of people can afford expensive hd’s. Thanks for the compliment!
July 30th, 2009 at 1:14 am
Thanks so much! I’m …
Thanks so much! I’m glad u do!
July 30th, 2009 at 1:14 am
fine video
fine video
July 30th, 2009 at 1:14 am
love your videos!!!
love your videos!!!
July 30th, 2009 at 1:14 am
Actually I was …
Actually I was wondering; since I got that 1TB drive on the way, I was gonna use it for TM. Am I gonna have problems using it to for Windows based systems and other types of files? Sounds like a dumb question but I just wanted to make sure.