my drive is used under time machine on my mac. today it gave me an error message saying it had not been backed up in 366 days when i think it has been up until the message. check in the finder and find recent backups. i tried to format and re-backup but the format failed as well is time machine wrong or is the drive dead????
rebooted now my macbook does not even see it
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mac will not see it
UPDATE: it just magically reappeared had to delete backups from 2008 and it worked fine must of been a corrupted backup
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