HT201250 Using the Seagate Backup plus Portable Drive on iMac with MacOs 10.7.5 (11G63)5

I have a 2008 iMac with operating system MacOS 10.7.5 (11G63)
I have just bought a Seagate Backup plus portable drive.
When I use it with the Time Machine, the backup starts, does 431.5 MB of the 33.64 GB and the gets stuck with the estimated time for the backup slowly increasing to 2000 days.
The formatting of the disc in Extended (journalled) as suggested.
Prevously I has a GoFlex external drive, that gave me no problems on this system. Unfortunately this drive was lost on one of my travels.
Could nayone help, please?
thanks
zavertal

If you installed the Seagate software, remove it according to the manufacturer's instructions.

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