Timeline for How to use a 2 TB external hard drive containing existing data as TimeMachine backup storage without losing data already on it?
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| Dec 9, 2019 at 2:51 | comment | added | qazwsx | I think you are wrong. I just finished saving TimeMachine backup on one of the two new APFS partitions. Now I just need to figure out how to change the other APFS partition to NTFS for storing and sharing other data on macOS and Windows machine. Any tip? | |
| Dec 8, 2019 at 16:47 | comment | added | benwiggy | @qazwsx Not APFS. Time Machine can only use HFS+. | |
| Dec 8, 2019 at 13:07 | comment | added | qazwsx | I got impatient and burned the data I really need to keep into a DVD. Now I'm ready to just erase everything on the hard drive create two partitions, one NTFS, the other APFS. How to do that? | |
| Dec 8, 2019 at 11:55 | comment | added | David Anderson | Do you have access to another machine that is running Windows? | |
| Dec 8, 2019 at 11:45 | comment | added | David Anderson | Would you not just use some third party application such a GParted to shrink the NTFS partition and add a new JHFS+ partition? To make a bootable GParted see "How to make and use an USB stick with GParted that will boot on a Mac?". | |
| Dec 8, 2019 at 10:45 | history | edited | qazwsx | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 8, 2019 at 10:38 | answer | added | benwiggy | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 8, 2019 at 10:29 | history | asked | qazwsx | CC BY-SA 4.0 |