I can't make a back up using Apple Time Machine

Hey,
I need to make a back up of my hard drive and I want to do that with Time Machine.
My mom has this 320GB hard disk and I made a partition on it (80GB) for my back up.
I started copying the files to my drive but it stopt at about 25GB (of 40GB) with this error:
I tried reformating repairing and anything else you could think of.
Hopefully someone knows how to fix this.
Greetings,
Roemer Bakker

You might want to start here:
http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/Home.html
I don't use Time Machine, but what I've gathered from Pondini (our resident Time Machine 'guru') is that you should have a separate hard drive for it rather than a partition. Also, the space allowed for Time Machine is supposed to be at least two times of the size of your hard drive - that is because it will keep backing up copies of new content until it is full.
If that one partition on that hard drive is the only one you have, you might want to consider creating a bootable clone instead using either CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper - it'll be an exact copy (clone) of your hard drive and it will be bootable. You do have to format it Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and use the GUID partition scheme or it won't be bootable.

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