I have recently Re-imaged my 24intel 2Gb Ram Leopard, after carrying out and checkign the time machine Backup., I have recently Re-imaged my 24intel 2Gb Ram Leopard, after carrying out and checkign the time machine Backup.

I have been having issues with the iMac and so decided to Erase/Install from scratch after first carrying out a Time Machine backup (which I checked had worked)
Once installed I tried to mount the USB drive and it didn't show.
I checked all the usual features and Preferences but finally cheked Disc Utility.
Disc Utility showed me the onboard drive with the Sectors/Partitions whilst the External WD Drive USB showed only as a single line with no sectors/partitions.
After rebooting a few times the drive mounted once and I got 90gb of data off it but then it failed again never to return since.
I still keep on getting the 'Virtual Drive' for backup software mounting every time though so it appears that the physical drive is ok.
Any ideas on getting it to mount or getting my data back??

I have been having issues with the iMac and so decided to Erase/Install from scratch after first carrying out a Time Machine backup (which I checked had worked)
Once installed I tried to mount the USB drive and it didn't show.
I checked all the usual features and Preferences but finally cheked Disc Utility.
Disc Utility showed me the onboard drive with the Sectors/Partitions whilst the External WD Drive USB showed only as a single line with no sectors/partitions.
After rebooting a few times the drive mounted once and I got 90gb of data off it but then it failed again never to return since.
I still keep on getting the 'Virtual Drive' for backup software mounting every time though so it appears that the physical drive is ok.
Any ideas on getting it to mount or getting my data back??

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        MacBook Pro (17-inch, Early 2011) (Technical Specifications)
        MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8,3
        1 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 4-core
        8 GB RAM
            BANK 0/DIMM0
                4 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
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    Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/sandi/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/73f862553779c33821fe63b50ba4008f4ae89038/8ca38b8456a3 80c835e4535b71a6322258f782c5 to (null)
    Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/sandi/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/73f862553779c33821fe63b50ba4008f4ae89038/9d43f27ba634 c956751fb66aadb06f955e74b3c8 to (null)
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    Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/sandi/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/73f862553779c33821fe63b50ba4008f4ae89038/878f9a9e9e99 35f370ab2a09d62665cafa4f723f to (null)
    Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/sandi/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/73f862553779c33821fe63b50ba4008f4ae89038/8ca38b8456a3 80c835e4535b71a6322258f782c5 to (null)
    Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/sandi/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/73f862553779c33821fe63b50ba4008f4ae89038/9d43f27ba634 c956751fb66aadb06f955e74b3c8 to (null)
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    Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/sandi/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Masters/2014/01/10/20140110-100023/IMG_8819.JPG to (null)
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    Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/sandi/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Masters/2015/02/21/20150221-163320/IMG_0946.JPG to (null)
    Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/sandi/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Masters/2015/02/21/20150221-163652/IMG_0878.JPG to (null)
    Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/sandi/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Masters/2015/02/26/20150226-202057/IMG_0789.MOV to (null)
    Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/sandi/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Previews/2015/02/21/20150221-162736/aNrBUprVRiGN3Ul+Yph5Jw/IMG_1181.jpg to (null)
    Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/sandi/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Previews/2015/02/21/20150221-162736/DDfJ%BYeR1mC2WtxQXpLdw/IMG_1180.jpg to (null)
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  • My Time machine won't back up.  Recently updated to OS x 10.7.5.  Error message is as follows:  "The backup disk image "/Volumes/Time Machine Backup/Scott's MacBook Pro.sparsebundle" is already in use."  What is wrong and how do I fix it?  Thanks.

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    Have you tried restarting the computer? Also, see Time Machine Error from this pages sidebar under More Like This.

  • HT201250 When restoring Time Machine after a failure, does it also restore the files to the same order, for example - within iPhoto I have pics/ videos in folders and sub folders organised as family/events etc - will it go back to this exact order after a

    When restoring Time Machine after a failure, does it also restore the files to the same order, for example - within iPhoto I have pics/ videos in folders and sub folders organised as family/events etc - will it go back to this exact order after a restore?

    Hi Stavros0203,
    When restoring your entire system from a Time Machine backup, it is restored to the state it was when that backup was made. See this article for reference -
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  • HT201250 I have done my back up using time machine, now I have a new mac and I need to access the files that I had saved from my old mac. How can I do that?

    I have done my back up using time machine, now I have a new mac and I need to access the files that I had saved from my old mac. How can I do that?

    Use Migration Assistant on your new Mac:
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