problems conecting my passport for mac to time machine

Problems Conecting My Passport To Time Hine Free Block Count

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After searching around on the forums, both here and Apples discussion threads, I have yet to find a solution.

I apologize if a solution to my problem has already been posted and I just havent looked hard enough, in which case please direct me to it and i will promptly delete this thread.

But without further ado, here is a copy of my post on Apples discussion threads (cuz Im lazy).

At first, it wouldnt show up on the desktop, but was being recognized in Disk Utility (with the Time Machine Backup partition greyed out).

After multiple restarts and unpluggingreplugging the hard drive, I finally got to be properly recognized, i.e.

Time Machine hard drive icon.

So I thought the problem was gone and started a routine backup.

However, Time Machine returned an error: Unable to complete backup.

I search the forums, and followed the advice here: I tried repairing the disk, but DU couldnt repair it: Verify and Repair volume Time Machine Backups Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.

Incorrect number of thread records Checking multi-linked files.

Problems Conecting My Passport To Time Hine Free Block Count

Invalid volume file count (It should be 3991498 instead of 3904049) Invalid volume directory count (It should be 678218 instead of 673790) Invalid volume free block count (It should be 9588404 instead of 11784378) Volume header needs minor repair The volume Time Machine Backups was found corrupt and needs to be repaired.

Volume repair complete.Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.

Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.

So now Im still following the advice on the above mentioned page by posting on here.

I am using a 2010 15in 2.66 i7 MBP, if that makes a difference, although my guess is the problems with the harddrive itself.

I think there may have been one time about a month ago when Time Machine stopped responding (or something like that) which forced me to pull out the harddrive, possibly corrupting the data.

But Im not sure, and I do recall making at least one successful backup after that.

Well, actually TM confirms this: Latest successful backup: 52711 at 11:51 PM.

That is, (as mentioned) it appears on the desktop and Finder sidebar with proper TM icon, I can access the files, I can write to it, I can create folders (which Time Machine seems to find itself unable to do), etc.

Thats why I tohught the problem was fixed at first (evidently its not).

Its only when I do Back Up Now on the TM icon on the menubar, that the error came up.

And of course the multiple errors thrown out by disk utility.

Perhaps the fact that its only not working with Time Machine can shed some light as to which parts of the disk are corrupted.

If the problem persists, use Disk Utility to repair your backup disk.

Problems Conecting My Passport For Mac To Time Machine