Tape immediately ejects?

[Jonathan_Berry]

I have been running successful backups for months now, but suddenly one of my tapes will not load. When I put it in the drive it reads for a moment and then ejects. Now last night we lost power for a while and when I came in to load today's tape, I am getting the same issue. I have 5 tapes one for each day of the week. 3 are working no problem, but two will automatically eject. Any Ideas?

[Ken_Putnam]

Sounds like the header is corrupt

If you shut down all BackupExec services, do the tapes still eject immediately if you try NTBackup? If not, try re-labeling the tapes and try them ib BackupExec again

[Jonathan_Berry]

I shut down all services, but the tapes still spin for a minute and then eject. To clarify, they spin for approximately 4 minutes and then eject.

I cannot keep them in the drive, so I am unsure how to proceed?

[Ken_Putnam]

The tapes are probably bad

Purchase some new ones