Time Capsule - Internal disk need repair message

Hey.
Got TC -2 TB version with latest firmware.
was used to be my media server.....formally
now it's just white box...
suddenly one night , wasnt able to connect to TC, on check green light was active..
but wasnt communicating and internet was down.
did restart- power down and up.
after that HDD not showing in finder window at all, and airport shows "internal disk need repair" tried few things but no luck
any idea to recover datat, how reliable is diskwarrior, data recovery softwares. can they see unmounted disk at all????
help.

All hard disks have stated MTBF.. Mean Time Between Failures.. but that is Mean ie average.. some disks go early and some go seemly forever.. but 50% of the disks will be dead at the MTBF point.
A TC that is only 7 months old is under warranty.. Apple will replace the TC for you. They will not recover data.
If you have data on the TC it should only be Time Machine backups which means they are not important if you immediately make a new backup to another target disk. If you copied files to the TC without making backup you are very naughty.. you broke the rules.. that you never ever trust files to a single location. Now you have to pull apart your TC voiding the warranty (although if you do it carefully who is to know).. remove the hard disk and attempt recovery.. !! It is usually a simple loss of format.. tools like mentioned above can fix that and recover the files.. if not you send the drive to a data recovery centre where your data is mangled and recovered as best as they can do.. at a cost of around.. $500-1000 depending on size and problems.. get a quote first.

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Take it straight back to the store for replacement. It is faulty.. there is no fix you can do from outside. Even if there was, I would still say it is Apple's problem.. and a disk should never go bad in that length of time..
You would think after the debacle with Seagate drives in the imacs they would never touch them again.

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It depends .. read the bottom .. first line of the rubber molding.. A1302 it is Gen2.
A1355 it is Gen3.
They use very different drives.. the Gen2 often have issues with WD black which could be dead but it can also be the power supply.
Gen 3 use 1TB samsung, 2TB WD green and the power supply is usually ok.
If you can access it in the Airport Utility do a full low level format.
Choose the one pass erase. Called Zero Out Data.
If this doesn't work or is not available you can have other issues.. replace the power supply if gen2 or replace the disk if gen3.
See http://embeddedideation.com/2014/03/dissecting-the-airport-express/
Pull out the drive and test it in a USB to sata holder.. if it works ok then power supply is bad. That is common on gen2.
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I been noticing that a lot of people here, in the forum, are having the same problems. I have tried downgrading to a previous version of the firmware to no avail. It's really dissapointing because there really you can do but wait for a solution from Apple, because you information is being held hostage until there is a solution. If any body has a better solution please help!!!!

FMPENA27, welcome to the discussion area!
If you are getting a message that your "internal disk needs repair", you might consider repairing your internal disk.
See #A5 in Pondini's excellent Time Machine Troubleshooting Guide

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Welcome to the discussions!
Open your Hard Drive and look for your Time Capsule on the left under the SHARED heading.
Click the TC icon and a TC folder will display to the right.
Double click this folder to display the xxxx.sparsebundle files that contain all of your backups.
Double click on the xxxx.sparsebundle file for your computer. If a window pops up with a "skip" option, click "skip". A white disk image of your backups will appear on your desktop in a few minutes.
Open Hard Drive > Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility
Select your backup image in Disk Utility and click Verify
Depending on how large your backup is, it may take hours for Disk Utility to check your disk
If Disk Utility reports errors, click Repair to see if that will fix the issues.

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Mac with Lion is about vista standard as far as networking goes.. did you turn it off and on again??
Turn off the whole network.. off not sleep.. reboot in the right order.. modem.. router.. TC if different to router.. then clients.. I think the TC should reappear.. if not connect to it by ethernet.. do not use extended wireless.. it is too flakey.
If it still doesn't appear press reset and do the setup again.
For lion make sure you download, install and use the tool utility.. not the toy utilty built into windows lion.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482
Tell me if the hard disk appears.. if so you know the procedure the next time.. in a few days when it happens again. It will happen again btw.. it is windows.. lion

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When my time machine tries to backup to my time capsule I get the following message"The backup disk image “/Volumes/Data/Kent’s MacBook Pro.sparsebundle” is already in use. " What do I need to do to fix this?

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The hard drive on my Time Capsule suddenly stopped working and where no longer visible or accessible, with the message “internal drive needs repair”. I googled the internet, called the apple service provider and more. They said that to go to a data extractor wouldcost me S$ 600-700, more than my Time Capsule cost me in the first place, on google they said you could open the Time Capsule and access the hard drive there, but I’m no computer wizard and would probably just mess things up(and mess up the warranty as well).
I read something about archive, but I am not sure if I have understood how it works completely. Can I archive the files on my disk(the filesis a bit over 1 TB) to an external drive, get a new Time Capsule(covered by thewarranty) and then just upload all my files, and it would be as nothing happend? Is it that easy? Would the archived files downloaded to my external hard drive be accessible files(usable from the external drive)? Or just one file that needs to be transferred back to the new Time Capsule? It is not the settings, nor the back up of the Mac that is important, but years of pictures taken on travels, documents from school etc.
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Thank you all for your help

eivindaamli wrote:
Can I archive the files on my disk(the filesis a bit over 1 TB) to an external drive, get a new Time Capsule(covered by thewarranty) and then just upload all my files, and it would be as nothing happend?
Hard to tell, yet.
It's not clear whether there's a problem with the drive, or if the backups on it are corrupted. Try repairing them, per #A5 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting. The results of that should tell us something.
If the internal HD really has failed or is failing, you probably can't "archive" it, per the green box in #Q6 of Using Time Machine with a Time Capsule.
If the backups are corrupted beyond repair, the best you can hope for is to copy them "as is." But it's quite likely the copy will be even worse than the original.

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Can the internal HD be partitioned?

This is asked several times a day.. obviously people are struggling with their latest SSD being too small.
The TC is not suitable for network file server.. but many people having no choice press it into service as such.
It cannot be partitioned. It was and is and ever shall be a backup device for Time Machine.
Major issues.
1. No backup.. no way Time Machine can backup a network drive. No place to backup to.. So all your files will be at risk. And you will need to buy a third party like CCC to do backup.
2. The TC cannot be partitioned and mixing TM backups and data is not great.
3. The drive is slow to spin up and quick to spin down.. there is no controls.
4. iPhoto in particular can easily corrupt its entire library with wireless networking causing a disconnection to one photo. Even if you do this;;; do not move your photo library... you have been warned!!
5. iTunes will constantly lose connection to the library. The disk is too slow to respond.. itunes on the computer will constantly spit out errors. Even in the midst of streaming the TC can spin down the disk due to caching.
6. Do not use any live files on the TC no matter what else you do.. if you edit files in whatever program the file must be on the local hard disk.
7. The only suitable location for most libraries is a computer. You can plug in an external hard disk.
Read pondini for some work arounds.
Q3 here. http://pondini.org/TM/Time_Capsule.html

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I have a Mac notebook and back up to time capsule. I Got a message that my statup disc is almost full and I need to delete files. Not sure which files it means and will i lose my files if they are saved on the time capsule.

Visit
The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on freeing up space on the hard drive. Also see Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk.
About TM "Backup Drive is Full"
Alert TM only deletes older files if they have been deleted from the source and when TM needs space on the backup drive for a new incremental backup. Time Machine "thins" it's backups; hourly backups over 24 hours old, except the first of the day; those "daily" backups over 30 days old, except the first of the week. The weeklies are kept as long as there's room.
So, how long a backup file remains depends on how long it was on your Mac before being deleted, assuming you do at least one backup per day. If it was there for at least 24 hours, it will be kept for at least a month. If it was there for at least a week, it will be kept as long as there's room.
Note, that on a Time Capsule the sparsebundle grows in size as needed, but doesn't shrink. Thus, from the user's view of the TC it appears that no space has been freed, although there may be space in the sparsebundle.
Once TM has found it cannot free up enough space for a new backup it reports the disk is full. You can either erase the backup drive and start your backups anew or replace the drive with a larger drive.

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