Time Machine HD not writeable after Snow Leopard upgrade

Drive worked fine previously. Now getting an error upon mount and when TM tries to backup, that the HD cannot be repaired and is read only. Unable to repair manually or even with Disk Warrior. Needs format. But I don't wanna lose this data and no place to store it. Any solution?

kernelpaniq wrote:
Drive worked fine previously. Now getting an error upon mount and when TM tries to backup, that the HD cannot be repaired and is read only. Unable to repair manually or even with Disk Warrior. Needs format. But I don't wanna lose this data and no place to store it. Any solution?
no. if disk utility and disk warrior can't fix it you do need to reformat it and if you need some data on it you have to copy it somewhere else first (if it will let you). there is no way around this.

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