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The password that you set on your USB external hard drive is used to encrypt the data that gets stored on that drive. Thus, I wrote some instructions and I’m sure other people have as well. For whatever reason, they don’t happen to provide instructions on how to replace an USB external hard drive when it fails. Read more about backup, external, hard drive, mac, replace, Time Machine.Īpple provides simple instructions that cover how to initially setup Time Machine and restore files from it. It’ll likely take many hours to finish since it needs to backup everything on your Mac.

Within a couple of minutes, Time Machine will initiate a backup to this new hard drive.

Click the red dot to close System Preferences.

You should see a prompt asking if you want to replace your current drive or if you want to use both drives.

In the Available Disks section, click on the name of the external hard drive that is replacing the dead hard drive then click the Use Disk button.In the Backup Disks section, click on the name of the external hard drive that has died and then click the Remove Disk button.Click on the Apple menu and select System Preferences.Here are instructions on how to reconfigure Time Machine to use a different hard drive. If you use Time Machine to backup your Mac to an external hard drive then you either have or will replace the external drive when it dies. Do you need to reconfigure Time Machine to use a new external hard drive? If you read my Tech Tips regularly then you’ll recall that I strongly recommend that everybody setup automatic and redundant systems to backup his or her Mac.