Time capsule and Windows Back Up Centre

Hi There
I have just bought a new Time capsule and it has set up properly, except for one small issue.
I can see the TC in Explorer as a network drive but it can not be seen in the back up centre, has any one got any ideas on how to fix this problem?
cheers in advance
Graham

map the drive thru explore first, enable the option to reconnect at logon and provide the TC id and pasword.
then use the windows backup menu and select your newly maped drive as the backup media.

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Open the guest access and give read and write permissions.
Also make sure you actually give the WORKGROUP name in the WORKGROUP area, correct to the win7 workgroup..
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doesnt work for me, its a real dealbreaker.
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The problem for me isn't mapping the drive, but using it once it's mapped. files and folders fail to copy, stuff doesn't always delete, drive sometimes becomes unavailable. The TC is solid otherwise.
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markstm wrote:
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doesnt work for me, its a real dealbreaker.
I've tried manually adding and editing the lmcompatability registry key, mapping via explorer, mapping via net use, browsing via unc, tried with airport config software and without, mapped via IP and mapped via hostname.
The thing is just flakey and doesnt work.
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The problem for me isn't mapping the drive, but using it once it's mapped. files and folders fail to copy, stuff doesn't always delete, drive sometimes becomes unavailable. The TC is solid otherwise.
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Put the seagate drive onto the Mac and format it Mac OS extended journaled. (HFS+ for short) and you will also need to change the partition over to GUID from MBR.
TC has very limited formats it can recognise.. FAT32 and HFS+ (well FAT16 but that doesn't count). exfat no, ntfs no, Really with FAT32 being hopeless.. you have one choice .. HFS+.
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But do reset the partition scheme to GUID.. not MBR.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ph5845
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Back up all data now.
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☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
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When you're done with ODS, quit it and also quit Terminal.

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