back up to external hard drive

my passport for Mac doe not back up anymore. Last back up was last week.


Posted on Sep 1, 2022 10:07 AM

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Sep 2, 2022 5:36 AM in response to mahanagarajan

I'm sorry that you've had that issue. but you did ask if anyone had the same issue. (also with WD my passport) and in my case, I did not. I would have thought it was a drive failure. but since you had two drives fail at the same time, a drive failure is highly unlikely. so rather than disposing the drives, I would try and erase and reformat them to see if you can repurpose them as external storage.

Sep 12, 2022 5:40 AM in response to mahanagarajan

I use a WD 4tb USB drive to backup to without problems and are running the latest version of Monterey.


I agree with Jeffrey that multiple drive failures is unlikely and if possible try the drives on a different computer and try a different cable to be sure it's not the problem. If you format the drive as exFAT then it will be readable on both a Mac and Windows machine. Also, know that when you use Time Machine, it will automatically reformat the drive and it will be unusable for other work.

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