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#HOW TO BACKUP MY MAC WITH TIME MACHINE USING HARDWIRE HOW TO#
#HOW TO BACKUP MY MAC WITH TIME MACHINE USING HARDWIRE FREE#

Click the Erase button at the top of the window.ĭisk Utility presents several tools at the top of the window.

In the sidebar, select the drive you want to erase or reformat.

Spotlight is the quickest way to open Disk Utility.

Open Disk Utility from the Utilities folder in your Applications.

#HOW TO BACKUP MY MAC WITH TIME MACHINE USING HARDWIRE HOW TO#

When you’re ready, here’s how to erase or reformat drives: So make sure to back up any important files before erasing or reformatting your drives. When you reformat a drive, it also erases all the data on it. Or you might need to reformat it so it works with different operating systems, like Windows, Linux, or even iPadOS. You may want to erase your drive as a quick way to create space for new files.

#HOW TO BACKUP MY MAC WITH TIME MACHINE USING HARDWIRE FREE#

Feel free to skip this section if you already know how to do it.

Let’s start with a brief explanation of the correct way to reformat or erase drives using your Mac. How to erase or reformat a Drive using Disk Utility

Learn how to reinstall macOS after erasing your Drive.

Boot Into Recovery Mode to Erase Your Startup Disk Run First Aid to Repair Your Drive Before Erasing It Show All Devices and Erase the Parent Drive What if the Erase Button in Disk Utility is grayed Out?.How to erase or reformat a Drive using Disk Utility.Your Time Capsule is now a basic router and a DHCP client which shares its own data folder. Just turn off the WiFi and the DHCP/NAT stuff and you're done. So the Apple TC acts as a simple switch that passes through the ethernet traffic to the correct device. The actual DHCP assignments and NAT etc for those devices will be handled by your main router (not the Time Capsule). I am connected to mine right now.Īny devices you connect to the Time Capsule's LAN ports will be routed "straight through" like a basic switch, WITHOUT any services/traffic modifications by the Time Capsule. You can reach it at that IP and connect to its network shared storage.

Your Time Capsule acts as a DHCP client and receives an IP address from your main router. It's now a NAS (network attached storage). Turning this off is very important, to avoid messing up your network with multiple layers of NAT etc (so don't listen to klanomath's comment on a previous answer).Ĭonnect a network cable from your main router to the Time Capsule's WAN port (not the LAN ports). Otherwise it will try to create its own subnet for any devices connected via its ports. Go into Network tab and set it to Off (Bridge Mode) so that it doesn't run a DHCP server/NAT anymore. Go into Wireless tab and set the mode to Off so that it doesn't create a WiFi network anymore. You should actually do BOTH of the things suggested by the other answers. Source is a Macworld article on the topic. This is the setup that I use I have 3 eero routers and thus needed the Time Capsule to not be an access point, and these steps stopped it from being that but let me keep backing up to it as usual.įrom this wireless tab, just choose off in the Network mode pop-up and hit update. The result will be a Time Capsule you can still wirelessly backup your Macs to, but does not function as a router or access points, so none of your devices will connect to it.

Click Update, and the base station will restart and load the new settings.

From the Network Mode pop-up menu, choose Off.

Go to the tab labeled Wireless (not Network as zhovner suggests, as putting it in bridge mode only stops it from being a router but does not stop it from being a network access point that your devices will connect to).

To prevent the Time Capsule from acting as a WiFi access point or router, and use it only as a backup disk, just open the AirPort Utility app on a Mac (Applications -> Utilities -> AirPort Utility) and do the following: Yes, this is possible and actually quite simple.