Time Machine Error! Help me.

[baddj]

Okay i am trying to make my old 160GB external HDD as my backup. but when it starts it saves about 50mb and then shows

"Time Machine Error

Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while copying files to the backup volume."

and in the logs it shows

29/05/09 3:48:21 PM System Preferences[230] Erase finished for volume named: Time Machine Backups diskID: disk1s2 partitionID: 2 mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
29/05/09 3:50:33 PM System Preferences[325] *** No valid imageRep
29/05/09 3:50:33 PM System Preferences[325] *** No valid imageRep
29/05/09 3:50:34 PM System Preferences[325] *** No valid imageRep
29/05/09 3:50:34 PM System Preferences[325] *** No valid imageRep
29/05/09 3:50:34 PM System Preferences[325] *** No valid imageRep
29/05/09 3:50:34 PM System Preferences[325] *** No valid imageRep
29/05/09 3:50:34 PM System Preferences[325] *** No valid imageRep
29/05/09 3:50:34 PM System Preferences[325] *** No valid imageRep
29/05/09 3:50:34 PM System Preferences[325] *** No valid imageRep
29/05/09 3:50:34 PM System Preferences[325] *** No valid imageRep

 

[p.luik]

Is there anything else on the drive? Use disk utility to erase the drive. Then check permissions on the drive.

 

[baddj]

The HDD was erased by Time Machine and you can not fix permissions on a Time Machine Drive it will not let you.