To erase the drive you would have to connect it directly to the computer via USB cable and use disk utility to do the erasing, this cannot be done connecting to the disk over the airport extreme. Gerhard gerhardk@xxxxxxx On 2009-11-04, at 10:21 AM, sue galos wrote: > I also couldn't find a way to erase the old drive! I'm hoping that > I won't run into this problem again .... but as a precaution, I > downloaded the time machine editor. --- Manage your account options at //www.freelists.org/list/muglo