Hi Sam - It was with the GUID partition. I followed the seagate site instructions again today (they said choose Guid partition) and the latest Time Machine backup has failed.
Best wishes Catherine Catherine Hunt [email protected] > On 23 Mar 2017, at 20:07, Sam - MacAmbulance <[email protected]> wrote: > > When you erased the drive was it with the GUID partition tablenor MBR? Try > with the former and the volume in the Mac OS Extended (journaled) format. > > If after that you still can't back up then it'll most likely be a hardware > issue > > Regards > > Sam > > > MacAmbulance Ltd. > Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development > > Sam Mullen > +44 (0)7747778022 <tel://+447747778022> > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > www.macambulance.co.uk <http://www.macambulance.co.uk/> > MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration > number 8466597 > > This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain > privileged or confidential information. > If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and delete > the email immediately. > > > > On 23 Mar 2017, at 13:51, Catherine Hunt <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Dear Smuggers, > > I have bought a Seagate Backup Plus Slim 1 TB USB 3.0 Portable 2.5 inch > External Hard Drive for PC and Mac from Amazon, intending to use it for Time > Machine backups with my newly acquired MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012), > (10.12.3), but just get the message that ‘Time Machine can’t complete the > backup’. > > I followed advice on Seagate website and erased the disk in Disk Utility. > I’ve reformatted it as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and I’ve also downloaded > and installed Paragon NTFS for Mac OSX, which the Seagate site says should > sort the problem. Except it doesn’t. > > Is there anything else that I could try? (Otherwise I’ll be returning to > Amazon). > > Thank you in advance. > > > Best wishes > Catherine > > Catherine Hunt > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug > <https://groups.google.com/group/smug>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug > <https://groups.google.com/group/smug>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
