Time Capsule won't back up new HD - freezes MacBook Pro

Last week I replaced my 110 GB HD with a 640 GB WD HD, and then used Migration assistant from the old drive to transfer all of my data, applications and settings. When I took my MacBook home, it began freezing up. Away from Time capsule, no freezing issues. Checking Time machine, it hasn't backed up data since the new HD was installed. Apple Store "genius" checked with Disk Warrior and said the drive was failing. I asked whether the freezing problem could be due to Time Machine/Time Capsule and they said no. But, if I turn off Time Machine, there is no freezing. Is it possible to continue backing up the new HD with the old information, or do I need to restart and do a full initial back up? Any ideas?

Pondini wrote:
marcjo wrote:
When I have checked to see how Time Machine was doing, it seems to scan all the items on the HD, and then start to back up, but only 13 kb, or 20 kb or some low number is listed as being backed up before it freezes.
That sounds like something's corrupted, either on your internal HD or your backups. Verify the internal, and repair your backups, per #A5 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting. (The repair of the backups will take a while, but will be much faster via Ethernet).
I verified the internal HD and it said the disk was "appears to be okay". However when I verified the disk permissions, I got a list that when transferred to MS Word was 295 pages long of errors. I don't know if any of the specifics are useful in diagnosing my problem, but here are a few lines:
Group differs on "Applications/Utilities/AirPort Utility.app/Contents/Resources/pl.lproj/AAUAdvanced.nib/keyedobjects.nib", should be 0, group is 80.
Permissions differ on "Applications/Utilities/AirPort Utility.app/Contents/Resources/pl.lproj/AAUAdvanced.nib/keyedobjects.nib", should be -rw-r--r-- , they are -rw-rw-r-- .
Group differs on "Applications/Utilities/AirPort Utility.app/Contents/Resources/pl.lproj/AAUAssistant.nib/keyedobjects.nib", should be 0, group is 80.
I wonder whether this means that when our IT guy transferred my data from my old HD to the new one if there was a problem in the way he did it? Some of the log notes indicated that things had been modified and would not be repaired. I did not run the "repair disk permissions" yet because I am not sure that is the correct way to proceed with so many errors.
If I need to do a full back up, I will connect directly to the Time capsule as you suggested. If possible, I would rather delete the older backups after doing the new one. Is that going to be possible.
No, unfortunately, but it shouldn't be necessary to delete the old one, since there's plenty of room.
Time Machine will do a full backup of the new drive, automatically. Before it froze, it likely showed something like +Copying xx mb of 110 GB,+ indicating it was going to back up the whole thing.
Yes, it did indicate it was going to copy the whole thing. I tried connecting directly via ethernet cable, and it still only copied 13 kb of 107 GB.
Should I repair the disk permissions and try again?
Thanks for any more thoughts.

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