use it.
Mac Mini
Intel Core 2 Duo
OSX 10.6.8
Iomega Mini Max
750GB
I have been using the hard drive for Time Machine and to store some additional files. Lately it has not been working correctly and will unmount by itself and give me the error "the disk was not ejected properly..."
I have tried Disk Utillty to erase the disk and it fails with the following two error messages. "The disk was not ejected properly..." and "Disk erase failed...the operation couldn't be completed. No such file or directory".
I have tried Disk Warrior and it usually quits after getting the error message "The disk was not ejected properly..." when the drive unmounts itself.
I do not need to recover any files on the disk, I just want to be able to reformat it and hopefully be able to use it again.

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