How to kill a backup that's frozen?

I have a 500 GB external drive and a 233 GB capacity internal drive that only has about 125 GB of space used. I have lately been having problems with Time Machine freezing up part way through a backup. Even when I select Stop Backing Up from the Time Machine menu it will not kill the backup. I simply get a message saying "Stopping Backup". However, it never stops and this message never changes. I have erased and reformatted my external drive, but I still seem to be getting this problem.
Any advice would be deeply appreciated.

Mark Fischer1 wrote:
The Time Machine disk is a Western Digital external drive that is at most, 2 years old.
It may still be the drive; they are mechanical beasts, after all, with tiny bearings and moving parts. If it won't spin up quickly enough at the right time, OSX may be stuck trying to talk to it.
And some WD's have a built-in sleep or "spin down" mode that sometimes interferes with TM backups: http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/stdadp.php?pfaqid=1376
Do you have another disk you can try, even temporarily?
Also try deselecting the +Put the hard disk(s) to sleep . . .+ option in +System Preferences > Energy Saver+ temporarily. Some externals respond to that setting, some don't.
I had previously been backing up just fine, and did so for a year and half with no problems. Interestingly, I started having these issues around the end of October, around the same time that I started having problems with the machine freezing up when I tried to log out.
They may be related -- did you ever solve that?
Try running the +Apple Hardware Test.+ It's on one of the disc(s) that came with your Mac, and is tailored to it's particular hardware. The disk should have +Apple Hardware Test+ and instructions for running it printed in very tiny type.
Also try the (free) Rember, a heavy-duty memory tester, from: http://www.kelleycomputing.net/
Any chance this could be related to the fact that I no longer have any of my other backups? When I reformatted my external drive
Doubtful, but if so, a "full reset" of Time Machine, per #A4 of [Time Machine - Troubleshooting|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/Troubleshooting.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum), will fix it.

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