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I purchased an external hard drive as a backup for my macbook pro about a week ago. I didn't format it because it seemed to work properly as soon as i plugged it in. Time machine initial backup completed, plus i copied over 400Gb of files from another drive, and everything was fine.
Lately i'd been getting the error from Time Machine: "Unable to complete backup: an error while creating backup directory". Attempted to repair the disk in Disk Utility failed; received the message "The volume could not be unmounted". Ok, maybe I'll erase the drive and reformat it - but again, it failed to unmount the drive.
I tried restarting the computer, and now the drive was gone, it failed to mount, and continues to fail to mount after several tries.
Is this just a lemon?
Lately i'd been getting the error from Time Machine: "Unable to complete backup: an error while creating backup directory". Attempted to repair the disk in Disk Utility failed; received the message "The volume could not be unmounted". Ok, maybe I'll erase the drive and reformat it - but again, it failed to unmount the drive.
I tried restarting the computer, and now the drive was gone, it failed to mount, and continues to fail to mount after several tries.
Is this just a lemon?