First backup never completed

I am having a lot of trouble with the time machine backing up to the time capsule.
It has never completed the first backup. It always gets about midway and then informs me there is an error.
I have appox 90GB to backup. It typically gets to around 70GB before the error occurs.
I've restarted this many time - with nothing else running on the machine (no Mozy or dropbox).
Any clues?

For those who are interested.
Apple's recommendation is to reformat the hard disk and try again.
This is a very common issue - if the first backup was interrupted.
Many are discussion on this,
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6931702#6931702
I googled and this is very common.

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Hello MrShroud,
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
For more information, take a look at:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3275
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Hello trusty forum! I'm hoping someone can help me out.
I've just purchased my new Time Capsule. My first back-up is just under 900GB.
I have arranged my TIme Capsule so that it is recognised on a pre-existing wireless network and I can do a wireless back-up without issue.
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It sounds like your main problem is a bad WIFI connection. Time Machine should be able to recover from a failed or interrupted backup, but it can take a long time, even if your WIFI is working well, as it may have to spend a lot of time figuring out where it was.
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