

I use macbook air with mountai lion and airport extra 5th generation - the latest model. Have I made a mistake by thinking that i could use airport extreme and an external hard drive to accomplish this? Has anyone else had this difficulty? I can see all my external hard drive's partition in finder and can mount them on the desktop but time machine refuses to list it in the table of available disks.

However, time machine doesn't seem to recognise the hard drive. I would like to use time machine to carry out backups onto a partition of an external hard drive attached via usb to my primary airport extreme.īefore I had purchased the airport extreme, I had researched it to reassure myself that indeed I could use time machine to backup to an external hard drive attached to it.
