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Time machine on a mac lap top gives the fol...




By keukalake on Sep 16, 2009

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time machine on a mac lap top gives the following trouble signal: ''back-up volume is read only''

what does this mean and how do I solve it?
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posted on Sep 17, 2009
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metroplexdj
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if your using a non mac drive it needs to be reformatted using disk utilities in you applications folder
a lot of times mac will read a pc drive but have trouble writing to it until it's formatted in the MAC format
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