External Hard Drive questions

switchfromdell

I have iMac 24 intel with Tiger and MacBook with Leopard. I wanted to develop an external hard drive for backup. One idea was to buy the Apple Time Machine hardware which would update my old Airport Utility and allow for backup. But, the problem is that the Time Machine would be attached to the iMac 24 with Tiger.



First question is...would I have to install Leopard on my iMac 24? If so, is this hard to do or have risks?



Second question is that by most forums, Seagate makes the best external hard drive but requires formatting using disk utility for Mac. I have looked up my disk utility and do not see format option. How do I format the external hard drive with the Tiger disk utility?

megawatt

Here is some info on formatting and partitioning drives



http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage...ing_tiger.html

kingofsomewherehot

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Originally Posted by switchfromdell


First question is...would I have to install Leopard on my iMac 24? If so, is this hard to do or have risks?

Time Capsule requires Leopard.

Back up your data first (just in case.)

But generally that upgrade is easy and painless.