Does time capsule disk replacement require formatting?

Hello:
I'm thinking of upgrading the disk in my time capsule from 500GB to 2TB.
The 2TB disk I have in mind is already formatted with Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Will Time Capsule require me to re-format this disk?
I've read that Time Capsule requires formatting of a new disk, but I was curious if anyone knew if this applies to disks that are already formatted for Mac OS.
Thanks for any info!
Nathan

The disk will most likely work as long as it is GPT not MBR with HFS+. Remember format and partition type are two different things. But any disk internally used in a Mac will be GPT.
It is just as likely to throw up disk errors in the TC though. I have partitioned disks like 3TB units to put in a TC.. they work absolutely fine but have disk errors just because the TC doesn't like the partitioning.
You can setup the disk in the TC by quick erase via the airport utility. It takes less than a minute. Of course it will wipe the present content of the drive.
BTW if you pull a disk out of the TC it will have the following partitions.
APconfig
APswap
Data (or whatever the drive name is).
The TC will create the two small partitions when you put the drive in.. and keep the existing drive name..
Hey I did a post on this.. a while back.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4278497?start=0&tstart=0
I found my own post via google.. but remember doing it.. vaguely.

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Same problem after 10.8.2 update yesterday,
Time Machine functions but disk does not mount in finder.
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as mounted (beneath a sparse image file) but not visible.
Is this a bug, or a feature?
LW
MBPro. OSX Mountain Lion, backing up to Time Capsule

Lost time capsule disk

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To the original poster,
so the internet comes into your place viat the Sky+ thing, which is supplying internet to your Time Capsule. This is the way that it should be. I remain confused about your reference to the Airport Express, but I don't think it really matters. The Time Capsule is essentially the Airport Xtreme product for Wifi/Routing, plus a hard disk drive for backups...the software component on your computer may reference an Airport Express as being the Wifi/Routing part of your TC-just not sure why.
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Next lets run your Airport Utility on the mac and locate your Time Capsule. Use the MANUAL SETUP option to look into its configuration. Click on the AIRPORT icon and then select WIRELESS and see what WiFi network name the TC is providing. Does this one match the one you saw before?
If there is a mismatch then this should explain why you couldn't see your TC HDD.
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If your HDD is dead then it is fairly simple to replace. You can also get a much larger disk than what you had previously and the cost should be well under $100 shipped to your door with the replacement taking only about 20 minutes and then several hours to get your initial Time Machine backup completed.
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I just purchased a Time Capsule to replace an Airport Extreme 802.11. Can I just swap them out with one another as far as the router end of it goes? Or, does the Time Capsule have to be set up with its own settings using Airport Utility? Anything else I need to/should know before making the change? Thanks

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About TM "Backup Drive is Full"
Alert TM only deletes older files if they have been deleted from the source and when TM needs space on the backup drive for a new incremental backup. Time Machine "thins" it's backups; hourly backups over 24 hours old, except the first of the day; those "daily" backups over 30 days old, except the first of the week. The weeklies are kept as long as there's room.
So, how long a backup file remains depends on how long it was on your Mac before being deleted, assuming you do at least one backup per day. If it was there for at least 24 hours, it will be kept for at least a month. If it was there for at least a week, it will be kept as long as there's room.
Note, that on a Time Capsule the sparsebundle grows in size as needed, but doesn't shrink. Thus, from the user's view of the TC it appears that no space has been freed, although there may be space in the sparsebundle.
Once TM has found it cannot free up enough space for a new backup it reports the disk is full. You can either erase the backup drive and start your backups anew or replace the drive with a larger drive.
Also, see Pondini's Time Machine FAQ

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This problem began with Airport Firmware 7.6, and has continued to perist with every subsequent firmware version. Reverting to firmware version 7.5.2 eliminates the problem. Running with the latest firmware version 7.6.3, on OS X 10.8.2, the Time Capsule disk is disconnected and reconnected every 5 minutes, and this is seen in the console log:
15/02/2013 16:10:22.344 KernelEventAgent[43]: tid 00000000 received event(s) VQ_NOTRESP (1)
15/02/2013 16:10:22.344 KernelEventAgent[43]: tid 00000000 type 'afpfs', mounted on '/Volumes/Vilya', from '//Mike%20Connally@TimeCapsule._afpovertcp._tcp.local/Vilya', not responding
15/02/2013 16:10:22.000 kernel[0]: ASP_TCP Disconnect: triggering reconnect by bumping reconnTrigger from curr value 190 on so 0xffffff804456ede0
15/02/2013 16:10:22.000 kernel[0]: ASP_TCP asp_tcp_usr_control: invalid kernelUseCount 0
15/02/2013 16:10:22.000 kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect started /Volumes/Vilya prevTrigger 190 currTrigger 191
15/02/2013 16:10:22.000 kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: doing reconnect on /Volumes/Vilya
15/02/2013 16:10:22.000 kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: posting to KEA EINPROGRESS for /Volumes/Vilya
15/02/2013 16:10:22.000 kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: Max reconnect time: 30 secs, Connect timeout: 15 secs for /Volumes/Vilya
15/02/2013 16:10:22.000 kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: connect to the server /Volumes/Vilya
15/02/2013 16:10:22.345 KernelEventAgent[43]: tid 00000000 found 1 filesystem(s) with problem(s)
15/02/2013 16:10:22.000 kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: Logging in with uam 13 /Volumes/Vilya
15/02/2013 16:10:22.651 KernelEventAgent[43]: tid 00000000 received event(s) VQ_NOTRESP (1)
15/02/2013 16:10:22.000 kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: Restoring session /Volumes/Vilya
15/02/2013 16:10:22.000 kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: get the reconnect token
Has anyone found a solution to this, other than reverting to Airport Firmware 7.5.2?

Welcome to the club.. there is a very long thread.. here.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3526741?tstart=0
There seems to be any number of factors.. where the solutions are little silly things..
Start from the end of the thread and work backwards as this has been ongoing for a long time.. and experience has improved.
What you are seeing btw is the change apple made in Lion and 7.6 to higher security version of AFP.. but it is a mess IMHO.. and has not worked at all well.

Cannot Access Time Capsule Disk from Boot Camp

Hi,
I've set up a Time Capsule and I've been able to read and write from:
1) My MacBook Pro and another MacBook
2) A Windows XP (SP3) PC connected by Ethernet
3 )A Dell Laptop running Windows XP (wirelessly)
I can copy files to and from the disk and perform Time Machine Backups (on the Macs).
However, I have not been able to even connect to the disk (but I can use the internet normally) on the Time Capsule on my MacBook Pro Boot Camp Windows XP SP3. I can connect wirelessly and surf the net on the 5 Ghz (and 2.4 Ghz) (non-public/Guest Shared) network. (The password I entered to access the disk are the same on all machines listed, which was not confused with the Network Password) Does anyone face such a problem or know the cause/fix?
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how to health check time capsule disk?
when doing time machine backuping and copying files into time capsule, it would take ages and very long time.. is the disk going to die soon?
is there anyway i can check the disk?
my time capsule is 2TB current model.
please help.
thank you.

Time Machine automatically checks the backups on the disk. It does a quick check (a few seconds) before every backup, and periodically (every month, I think) does a much more thorough check.
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If I am working on a file in a program, does time capsule back this file up? So if the program(third party) crashes after half an hour for example, can I still get the file back or would it be incomplete because it was open during back-up?
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Like most backup apps, Time Machine doesn't (can't) back up anything in memory, only things on disk.
When you Save a file you're working on, or done with, it goes to disk and will be included on the next backup.
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I just replaced my 3 year old 2TB Time Capsule with the latest 3TB Time Capsule. I also replaced both of my wireless network extender Airport Extremes with the latest model. The Time Capsule disk goes offline after a Time Machine backup. I have to reboot my Mid 2010 Mac (Yosemite 10.10.1) to get the disk back online, only to have it go offline again after the next Time Machine backup. I am not sure if the problem is with my new Time Capsule or if there is a problem with my iMac.

The fact that it is the Mac you are rebooting indicates the issue is the OS.
Are you using wireless or ethernet?
As you can see with a quick glance down this page.. and the last few pages.. the introduction of Yosemite has not been without issues.. network in particular has been poor.
I am keeping myself out of fray.. having introduced a test Yosemite machine which caused the network to go completely berserk I have left well alone.
But I am tracking the issues.. so far nothing much is known.. so I can only suggest a few things to try.
One user has just suggested turning off AFP in the system preferences.
the simple method: System Preferences, Sharing, File Sharing, Options button, un-check AFP.
SMB should still be checked.
You should be able to manually mount the TC in finder.
Use Go, Connect to Server.
SMB://10.0.1.1
(Thanks for the screenshot as that makes it much easier).
Finder should locate the network resource and mount it.. asking you the password.. please save that in the keychain so it doesn't forget.
Here is apple's list.
OS X Yosemite: Time Machine problems
It has not got anything close to locating the problem. But there are some things that may be important.. ie it can be several bugs in combo not just flick this switch and now everything works.

There is a problem with your airport time capsule disk

Hello,
Since I got my airport time capsule and set it up, I got an error "there is a problem with your airport time capsule disk" and disk is not listed for setup or erase. The LED is flashing amber sine I turned on the first time.
The wifi is working fine as well as the internet connectivity.
I got the device from the online store and was shipped to my address in the states but I opened the box the first time in Saudi Arabia as I left the states immediately after receiving it.
Any advise on fixing this or a near by apple support center where I can get it in for repair / replacement?

Any advise on fixing this or a near by apple support center where I can get it in for repair / replacement?
I would first suggest that you perform a "factory default" reset on your Time Capsule (TC).
If that fails to remedy the problem, you can obtain technical support from Apple here.

Airport utility message; time capsule disk needs repair

It is a one month old Time Capsule and was working fine. The light is blinking yellow. I tried a restart on the time capsule. The airport internet is working fine. I opened disk utility but I do not see the time capsule disk there. Any help would be greatly appreciated?

You cannot fix a network disk from disk utility.. it only works on local disk.
I would return it now. Today.. while it is still called Today.
A disk that goes faulty that fast is doomed to early failure the next time.
There is only one function in the TC.. erase the disk.. do a one pass erase if it works.. note this may be greyed out if the disk if not even reachable.
You can also turn off the TC for a couple of hours to cool down.. is it hot btw?? It should run no more than just warm now.
Otherwise exercise warranty immediately.. to be a pain.. ask why they used Seagate drives after the iMac replacement program.

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I use my time capsule disk drive for storing various data eg photos music etc. The disk seems to go to "sleep" after a relatively short period of inactivity and to take quite a few seconds to wake back up again. Are there any user controls to manage theses settings?

I have the same problem.
So far it was just annoying that I had to wait almost each time for accessing the TC but just minutes ago the TC became unresponsive completely through WLAN durin a spin up of the HD.
What I did was that I archived a new file to the mounted TC drive by drag and drop. Naturally I had to watch the spinning rainbow for 15 secs since the HD was down (to me the spin down interval is around 5 minutes which means apart from continuously doing something on it it becomes sleepy and non-responsive practically instantly).
After the copy finished (in 15 sec for one <1MBytes file) I went into a folder to browse its content. Here I got spinning rainbow again and then the wlan icon in the menu bar started to blink which is the way the TC wlan dies to me. It connects and disconnects in ca. 6 sec loops.
During all of this an internet radio was played on an other computer.
Making it short I'd like to have control on the disk spin down interval. Very much needed!
What I had in mind was to have a small program running continuously on each of my computers. This tool should put some bytes of data onto the TC in every minutes so that way keeping it alive.
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