Nate Champion
Well-Known Member
Right, so my Mac crashed a while ago, eh, right after I bought this Western Digital TB passport [external hard-drive].
So, the Mac was fixed, but yer man who fixed it had to recover the "lost" data. When he had recovered the data from my broken Mac, I gave him the new WD to put it on. Right. So anyway, I stick the WD external hard-drive into the now freshly working, but wiped Mac... but it needs to be calibrated with the Time Machine on the Mac... but in order to do this I have to seemingly erase what is on the hard-drive - e.g the recovered data!
Arghhh!
Is the only way to calibrate the WD with my Mac to erase all this recovered data?? Please tell me there's a way to calibrate the WD drive without losing the recovered data. Tried checking the recovered data files on a Toshiba, and nothing intelligible comes up...
So, the Mac was fixed, but yer man who fixed it had to recover the "lost" data. When he had recovered the data from my broken Mac, I gave him the new WD to put it on. Right. So anyway, I stick the WD external hard-drive into the now freshly working, but wiped Mac... but it needs to be calibrated with the Time Machine on the Mac... but in order to do this I have to seemingly erase what is on the hard-drive - e.g the recovered data!
Arghhh!
Is the only way to calibrate the WD with my Mac to erase all this recovered data?? Please tell me there's a way to calibrate the WD drive without losing the recovered data. Tried checking the recovered data files on a Toshiba, and nothing intelligible comes up...