Switching Time Machine Drives

Question

Hello,
I am trying to change the HDD my Time Machine is in to a new drive. I've researched it on the internet and what everyone suggested was for me to copy the backups folder to the new drive (of course, after unchecking the "ignore ownership" box at the bottom of the drive's information pane). All seemed to be working well until it encountered an error saying I had no permissions to copy some files to the new drive (error number -8062). Does anyone know what this means and how I can solve it?
The original drive is a 1TB WD My Book (TM is on a 500GB partition), and I'm looking to transfer it to a 500GB partition on a 1TB WD My Passport. I don't think formatting is the problem as both are formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled), as I had read it was the formatting on which TM worked.
Any suggestions?
Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

I don't think you partitioned and formatted this new drive. You need to use Disk Utility to do that:
Drive Partition and Format
1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
2. After DU loads select your new hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Apply button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Security button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.