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I have set my WD hard drive as my time machine device and it seemed to work fine for a while. But despite the fact that I plug it in often I've noticed in preferences that the last back up was done at the end of August. It's set to do automatic backups and everything seems ok but I have no idea how to make this work. Can someone help me with this please.
MacBook Pro
Ok it says it cannot be repaired, tells me to reformat it and start again. I think I will have to take it into the Apple store as I'm not sure how to do that, unless it is easy and anyone wants to talk me through it!
The drive has malfunctioned. Sometimes that happens because of a bad cable, but usually it's the drive. The first thing you should do is back up to another drive. As this experience shows, you need more than one backup to be safe. Imagine what would have happened if your primary drive had crashed, and you found out only then that you had no backups.
So after backing up to another drive, you can try erasing the old one. Personally I would never trust it again. If you want to continue using it, keep a close eye on it, and if it ever acts up again in any way, take it to be recycled, or get it replaced under warranty if applicable.
For instructions on how to erase the drive, see the built-in Disk Utility help (under the Help menu.)
Thank you very much for your help. 😀
Time machine not working
