I remove my hard drive from time machine,now it won't recognize hard drive

i got a delayed error on my time machine backup saying Time Machine couldn’t complete the backup to my back up hardrive, so what i did i removed my hard drive in time machine "select disk" , thinking if ill plug it back it'll recognize but it didn't.. now it wont show anymore on my time machine, but it shows on my mac computer and disk utility.. how do i fix this? please help... i have the late macbook pro 2010 running osx mountain lion

Try repairing it:
Open Disk Utility in the Utilities folder. Select your Time Machine drive in the list on the left. Click on the First Aid tab in DU's main window, click on the Repair Disk button.

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