How to erase TM?

Question

I need to erase TM but don't know how. It doesn't appear in Disk Utility.
I installed a new 1.5TB internal HD and made it my startup disk. I had no problems cloning the old startup disk(500GB) to the new one and everything works fine. The only problem I have with old 1TB Time Machine which gives me message that there isn't enough space. It appears that the TM wants to backup the contents of the new startup HD to the existing backup from the old startup HD. It wouldn't remove the files from the old startup disk to make more space. I guess I need to erase the TM and back up the new startup disk as if I backup the first time. Or can I trash TM app. and somehow reinstall it?
Milan

Answer 1

Milan Kalus wrote:
I do have Time Capsule. I can't erase TM with the contents of old HD backup. When I open TM in the Finder the last backup (close to 500GB) of my old HD sits there and I don't know how to get rid of it.Please tell me how to "trash the sparse bundle with TM backups and empty trash".I don't see the trash can and don't know what is the sparse bundle.
DO NOT use TM interface for this.
click on the Time capsule in the sidebar of any finder window. It will show volume called Data (unless you renamed that). click on that. this will mount your Time capsule hard drive. what do you see inside? there should be a sparse bundle with TM backups. trash the sparse bundle and empty trash.
Milan