macbook keeps asking to restart!!!!!!

[ksabek]

hey last week my macbook crashed and it turns out its a hard disk failure, so i fixed it and restored it using time machine, after restoring it i restarted it then when the apple logo appears, a box saying to restart the computer by pressing the power button in a couple of messages!!!! i restart then the same thing!!!! what to do!! i have exams and projects i need my mac!!
just a note: the mac was working properly after fixing the hard disk before restoring!

[Magnus]

hey last week my macbook crashed and it turns out its a hard disk failure, so i fixed it and restored it using time machine, after restoring it i restarted it then when the apple logo appears, a box saying to restart the computer by pressing the power button in a couple of messages!!!! i restart then the same thing!!!! what to do!! i have exams and projects i need my mac!!
just a note: the mac was working properly after fixing the hard disk before restoring!

So it was working fine with a clean Mac OS X after you had fixed the hard disk problem? Did you put in a new hdd or how did you fix that problem?

You could try to restore the backup to an external hdd. That way you could get access to the documents you need.

[ksabek]

they installed a new hard drive

[ksabek]

so Magnus i think the problem is that my time machine drive is corrupted or something, so im restoring my mac using the restore cds then update it to snow leopard then just take individual files from my time machine drive till i fix it....how could i fix the drive? is there a simple fast way...or i should just get a new one?!

[Magnus]

how could i fix the drive? is there a simple fast way...or i should just get a new one?!

Fix the old one? The one they took out? Or the Time Machine one? Not sure there's anything you can do with the TM one unfortunately.

[michl]

The main question is whether the problem is with the hard disk itself or with the data on it i.e., a corrupted Time Machine backup.

The later may happen. You can read about it in Apple forums and many other places...

Either way, safest is to get another external hard drive and copy your precious data manually. Then you could try and fix the Time Machine backup, if that is the issue.

But from what you say it seems more likely your drive is having a problem. Of course re-formatting it might make it usable again, but you still need to backup on the other disk anyway.