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Time Machine won't recognize external hard drive

I bought a new 2 TB hard drive. I tried to partition it to use part for Time Machine backup and part for normal storage. Time Machine won't recognize the disk, although it is on my desktop and I can copy files to and from it. Disk Utility shows it has only 500 GG. I tried re-formating the disk from Disk Utility, and it seems to reformat OK, but still shows only 500 GB and Time Machine doesn't see it. I am using APFS format. I tried Disk First Aid, and it says everything is OK.

How can I fix this 2 TB external hard drive so Time Machine will use it? Is it possible to use half of it for Time Machine and half for normal use?

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 11.2

Posted on Apr 10, 2021 12:41 PM

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Flash2 Author

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Posted on Apr 10, 2021 2:31 PM

I fixed the problem by re-starting my Mac.

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