When I've plugged in my USB HDD (WD Passort Elite) for the first time, the system had asked me whether I want to use this HDD as time machine drive. I've chosen smth like 'decide later' and continued my work. When later I tried to setup time machine preferences I couldn't find the way to set my USB HDD as time machine drive. When I press 'Select drive for backup' i see empty list, nevertheless my drive is plugged in and works well.
Btw, it is ntfs-formatted, could it be a problem?
Thanks in advance
Best Answer
You can't backup to an NTFS formatted disk as stated below:
This quote is from the apple support page for Time Machine
You could always reformat the disk in Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format which would allow you to use it.