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I've had a problem with my Time Machine backup for just over a month now. It was stuff in some sort of backing up state (not "Processing" like I see a lot when I google this problem). Every time I plugged it in and tried to do something, my Finder proceeded to completely freeze up and I was forced to shut my computer down.
Tonight, after downloading the latest Snow Leopard update, I decided to give it a shot again and it didn't work, crashing my Finder as usual. I want to make sure I have a back up so I decided that it would be worth it to use Disk Utility to erase my external hard drive and start from scratch, but that didn't work. Disk Utility won't let me erase the hard drive for one of two reasons, either there is an input/output problem, or it can't allocate enough memory.
Is my external HD completely corrupt? Something seems to be terribly wrong and I'd really like to get a backup going here. I feel so uneasy not having all of my music and photos on another drive. Thanks for any help you all can offer.
Best,
Taylor
Tonight, after downloading the latest Snow Leopard update, I decided to give it a shot again and it didn't work, crashing my Finder as usual. I want to make sure I have a back up so I decided that it would be worth it to use Disk Utility to erase my external hard drive and start from scratch, but that didn't work. Disk Utility won't let me erase the hard drive for one of two reasons, either there is an input/output problem, or it can't allocate enough memory.
Is my external HD completely corrupt? Something seems to be terribly wrong and I'd really like to get a backup going here. I feel so uneasy not having all of my music and photos on another drive. Thanks for any help you all can offer.
Best,
Taylor