TM does not see my disk, but it shows up in finder.

I have connected an external hard drive through a USB connection. Finder sees it, and it comes up on my desktop. My problem, however, is when I try to connect to Time Machine. It doesn't show up when I click "choose backup disk." I also plugged in a flash drive, and it's on my desktop, but absent from time Machine. I've checked all the posts and looked where they told me, but to no avail. I am not a tech person, but I'm not an idiot, and right now, I am not a happy camper. I do have Fusion and parallels on my computer as well (I'm trying to decide which I like better). I don't see a connection on why that would impact it, but I'm throwing everything in as a possibility.

Yes, you need an HFS+ formatted drive to use Time Machine. Most external USB drives you get come formatted as FAT32 (which is an old PC format that the Mac can read/write to). Some of the tricks Time Machine uses (specifically, hard links) are not compatible with FAT32.
A good clue to when a drive is formatted as FAT32 is that the name shows up IN ALL CAPS.

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David http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dbrowne/
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