On Mar 10, 2010, at 3:40 PM, Elliott Price wrote:
I think my backup drive that I've been using as a TM drive (An
Iomega eGo drive) screwed up something in my main hard drive's system;
No. a TM volume is just another USB or Firewire removable drive, and
cannot affect your hard drive in that fashion. Time Machine itself is
a file-level program, and so can only access volumes, not devices,
mucking about with the boot partition is a device-level thing.
I have the problem where my boot partition shows up as EFI boot in
firmware, and recently, whenever it was plugged in, I would have
strange problems that cleared up the instant I unplugged it. (Such
as system processes with DEV in the name taking up 99% of my CPU
power....) Needless to say, I haven't backed up for a few weeks. :P
'the problem' indicates this is a known issue?
My suggestion would be to boot from your OS disk, and use Disk Utility
to check it's SMART status and run a repair pass on it.
If it's ok, re-partition, and reformat your hard drive, re-install the
OS and use your backup drive to restore.
I'd also be on the lookout for a new drive; because these kinds of
issues are often early warning signs of impending drive failure, SMART
reported good or not. Very typically after an incident like this, the
SMART errors will start appearing.
--
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group
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