With a new exHD, time machine seems to copy backups, then stalls.

Hi, my old external hard drive backup, a MyBook, is filling up, so I bought a Seagate Backup Plus to take over the Time Machine backups. I formatted and partitioned the new EHD, and it seemed to start the process of copying the TM backups. But then I get a message:" You may need to enter the name and password for an administrator on this computer to change the item named backups.backupdb."
However, it gives me no option to entering the name and password. It basially gives me the option of Skipping, continuing, or stopping. Any choice results in the copying progress bar freezing.
In addition I *did* give the name and password at the beginning of the process. So I really don't understand what's going on. Also, I am able to copy old files from the MyBook to the second partition on the Seagate with no problem.
Could the size of the TM backup be an issue? It's about 1.5 TB.
Appreciate any help, thanks.

Thanks Eric,
I have followed the steps in the first link. It's in the copying the old drive backup to the new drive where the freeze happens.
I've also had Disk Utility check the disks, which seem OK.
One thing I'm noticing now is that I do *not* see the "Ignore ownership" check box in the Sharing and Permissions" section for the new Time Machine partition, which is weird, because I'm pretty sure the first time I tried it, it was there. That check box is still visible in the other partition, but not in the partition I've created for Time Machine. I have no idea what it means.
Not sure what else to try. I may try to contact Seagate support tomorrow and just see how responsive they are.
Thanks again.

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