Time Machine (The backup volume could not be found). - Page 2

rumar4u · #11 02-20-2008, 09:41 AM

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[cite] monsieur.d:[/cite]rumar4u: thanks for the answer. I was not asking what kexts are or how to install them.

I explained that cause of all the new people who usually comes right here that maybe can perhaps take advantage of that explanation

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[cite] monsieur.d:[/cite]I appreciate that you took the time to reply, but you don't need to tell me to think for myself and how to behave in a forum. If you used a nforce lan card, you'd know what I contributed to the hackintosh community.

Thanks for your contribution, im sure i took advantage of it... but I wasnt telling you how to behave, neither how to ask and for God's sake if you have a question you're free to ask to whoever you want its a free world...I told you so, cause who knows, there are some people, first they dont put their specs (no easy taks to guess) second some of them dont want to take the time to search and read (mess around a bit) so that comment came to motivate others to "think" and go out there and do some searching, put here and there (mess around) until it gets right so we can contribute to help others the way they got it

Sorry if i was being rude... Sometimes its not the words you say its how you say them, and maybe i didnt say it like i meant to

compaqdrew · #12 02-20-2008, 09:57 AM

I ran timdsmith72's script, repaired permissions, did a touch, and rebooted. Still nothing.

For the record (some think this is networking related) I have a SLI 570 chipset with dual LANs (which don't work and never have) and I use a ENGLA-1320 for real networking.

woody970 · #13 02-20-2008, 10:31 AM

compaqdrew, The reason I believe it's related to your network card is in part the information that I found on the forum that I posted above and from my experience
with my own Computer. Just before I posted above I did some testing with my pc and found that when I unplugged my USB wireless network card and tried to use time machine it gave me the error that we are all trying to fix. In turn I reconnected the usb wireless card and connected to my network and everything worked again, I also tried leaving the usb wireless card plugged in but not connected to any networks and tried the program an it worked. So this leads me to believe that
it has some sort of dependancy on a working network card, or it could be that it just doesn't like a wired network card. Do you have the ability to try a wireless network card? FYI all real mac's (non hackentoshes) have both a wired connection and a wireless connection so maybe it's dependent on the wireless card more so than a network card.

My Specs.:
OS: MacOSX Leopard 10.5.2 by Zephyroth
Processor: AMD Athlon™ 64 4000+ / MMX, 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, x86-64
Motherboard: MSi K8N-Neo3 Platinum (MS-7025)
Graphics: NVidia GeForce FX 5200 - working out of the box
Hard Drive: Seagate (160 GB) IDE
Sound card: Realtek ALC850 Audio - patched and working
Memory: 1 GB
Fast Ethernet by Marvell 88E1111 PHY -(not working - disabled in bios)
Fast Ethernet by Realtek 8110S (1000Mbps) - (working out of the box but not used)
USB wireless network card (Hawking Technologies for mac) - working with vendor drivers

monsieur.d · #14 02-20-2008, 09:30 PM

rumar4u: no problem. You were not rude. That's certainly a problem with internet forums: what you write and think might be interpreted differently by the reader... So all is fine. Back to fixing my time machine

monsieur.d · #15 02-20-2008, 09:50 PM

FIXED: Repartitioned target backup drive using MBR partitioning (was GUID).

Long answer: Apparently there's a problem with GUID (at least in my computer).

Firstly, I tried to install Leopard (Zephyroth's 10.5.2 DVD) in a GUID partition. It would not boot.

Now, I set the backup drive to a unit partitioned with GUID and TimeMachine would not backup my data. As soon as I repartitioned it with MBR, it worked.

Thanks to all.

D.

monsieur.d · #16 02-20-2008, 10:09 PM

For the record:
My Specs.:
OS: MacOSX Leopard 10.5.2 by Zephyroth
Processor: AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 4200+ / MMX, 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, x86-64
Motherboard: ASRock 939NF6G
Graphics: NVidia GeForce 7800 GT - working with NVInject
Hard Drive: Seagate (160 GB) IDE, Maxtor (200 GB) SATA
Sound card: Realtek ALC888 Audio - patched and working (output only)
Memory: 3 GB
Fast Ethernet by Realtek 8139 (100Mbps) - (working out of the box - 3.60 euros :-)
USB Apple Keyboard and USB Mouse

PingunZ · #17 07-20-2008, 05:26 PM

Sorry to revive this thread, but I'm having the same problem..
I tried:
- TM fix ( from the topic in #leopard )
- Repairing permissions
- Disabling / enabling TM
- Formatting the Drive, and gave it another name as well
- Installing another SMBIOS ( macdotnub )
- the xattr method mentioned in this thread.

What else can I try?
I'm on 10.5.4,
AppleSMBIOS 1.0.13
IONetworkingFamily 1.6.0

edit: my backup drive is in MBR

mitchellkza · #18 04-13-2009, 12:30 PM

The way I solved this "volume could not be found error" is the following:

I use a seagate external drive 150GB (SEA_DISC) for my time machine backups. I originally formatted the original partition on that drive to be Mac OS Extended (Journaled) but time machine would not recognise it. I then went into Disk Utility, selected that drive, went to partition, changed it to 2 partition, then immediately back to 1 partition which then allowed me to click on partition options where I then changed it to GUID partition type, clicked apply and voila, Time Machine could see the drive. I don't think Time Machine likes MBR partitions. Hope this helps you.

My system: iATKOS 5i (10.5.5), Intel Core i7