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external HD time machine error; now won't mount
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<blockquote data-quote="kontrabass" data-source="post: 1033701" data-attributes="member: 150672"><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>I tried restarting the computer, and now the drive was gone, it failed to mount, and continues to fail to mount after several tries.</p><p>Is this just a lemon?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kontrabass, post: 1033701, member: 150672"] 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? [/QUOTE]
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