HARD DISK PROBS / TIME MACHINE not behaving with TC ? READ THIS!!!!

I had many probs with the hard disk and now have a happy healthy TC working great with time machine, so I though I'd share my experiences with others hoping it will save you my huge pain !
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I've spent hours and hours trying to get the harddisk to work properly. Set-up was easy-peasy and the Airport works great for the internet. However, when trying to use time-machine and the hard disk it was a nightmare !!! Each attempt at the back-up failed after about 4 gig with a 'unable to mount volume' error. If I re-tried, it failed. Following some of the tips on the forums, I deleted the back-up file created by time machine on the hard drive and the initial back-up started successfully but failed after about 4 gig again (I had 96 gig to back-up). There are various fixes flying around -
*_ensure you have a name for your computer - should be short and no spaces or funny characters. Same goes for your name of the timecapsule. Some people are saying you should use an ethernet cable for your first back-up but that should not matter at all.*_ I took mine back to the apple store in the end - a mac genius downloaded all the latest patches (only came out 19th march) for the time-capsule firmware, time machine software and airport express. Still didn't work, so conclusion was the time-capsule was knackered !!! SO MY RECOMMENDATION IS TO GET APPLE TO REPLACE IT BUT MAKE SURE YOU TRY THE ABOVE FIRST.
New time-capsule was attached to my imac, started up great first time. My initial back-up ran through perfectly first time through wireless - it took 15 hours but I did have 96 gig to back-up. time machine sees this no problem so it looks like everything is fine. _*I ALSO NOTICED THAT THE TC WAS MUCH MORE QUIET AND LESS HOT.*_
Good luck !!

Hi,
Well, The external drive you have problem with is from a third party vendor :-)
I just looked up your model and we need to start over.

How do you connect it to your computer?
Is it plugged in to the router via ethernet and you access it over WiFi.
The drive needs to be setup as per supplied instructions.
The manufacturer says it is Time Machine compatible but from my experience I know this is not switched on by default.
The main reason why you cannot access it is you basically have to set it up for your use and most likely authenticate to it.
At this stage I'm quite sure there is no much wrong with that drive. It just need setting up.
Let me know if you have any instructions from Seagate which you can follow.

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