Cant back up

HI all,
I bought a new Iomega 500Gb portable external hard drive for my macbook. As soon i plugged it, time machine asked if it wanted me to use this as as back up drive, i clicked yes, and the process started. within a few minutes, my computer hung (for the first time), and didnt come back for a long time, so I had to manually eject the hard drive and computer came back. since then trying to back up using time machine is not working... the first 6.1Gb's are fast, then the computer hangs and finally backup stops. Error message comes up - time machine error - cant back up.
I have been through the forums before, have gone through troubleshooting tips, reformatted the external drive (3-4 times) - as per trouble shooting and tried the tips on previous forums... but still cant make it work. It starts backing up - does only around 72 Mb and then hangs - finally stops.
Dont know if anyone has any suggestions. The hard drive is mac compatible. I have spend two days trying to figure it out, with no relief.
Thanks.

This sounds like the drive isn't formatted properly, but if you've done it per #5 in the
Frequently Asked Questions *User Tip,* also at the top of this forum, it must be something else.
A clue may be lurking in your logs. Click here to download the +Time Machine Buddy+ widget. It shows the messages from your logs for one TM backup run at a time, in a small window. Navigate to the backup in question, then copy and post all the messages for that run here.

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