External hard drive + time capsule

I recently purchased an iMac and connected a LaCie ext. hard drive. Time Machine kicked in and started using this as a backup location. Since then I purchased Time Capsule for backups. The Lacie hard drive is still sitting on my desktop labelled Time Machine Backups. Can I just delete the old backup files and use it as an extra hard drive for digital photos etc.? I'm just a little confused as a long time pc user. I had expected that the extra hard drive would show up as "external hard drive" or "Lacie hard drive"

you can remove that external hard drive, if you have it currently connected to TC then use Airport Utility to go to disk/shared and disconnect it then remove the power then remove usb cable. If you want then connect to your Mac and partition it then add your software . You can connect it to the TC power on first then usb to TC then to device. Open your boot hard drive and on left side will be Tc. Select it and you'll see your external hard drive.

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