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Badradio

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Aug 19, 2004
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Manchester
A couple of months ago, I ran into problems with my Time Machine backup: it basically went read-only, and while the drive could be read, now more backups could be made. I deleted the backup, recreated it with no problems, but the first "non-initial" backup failed with the same error: can't write to, or repair, the drive.

I finally remembered that I'd installed Steam to play Portal a day or so before it first happened, so I uninstalled it, rebuilt the backup, and now it's working fine.

Has anyone else had this issue?

Cheers,
Steve

Update: I take it back. Getting some freaky behaviour from this disk, so it's more likely the hardware.
 
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