Okay, my previous post about my Time Machine experience was premature. Though I was able to install what seemed like a stable system from one of my Time Machine backups, rebooting is still a problem. I can sometimes boot into Safe Mode, but a regular boot is out of the question. I attempted to create a new Time Machine backup (of the restored system, to an old USB2 hard drive that I hadn’t been using for anything) and it crawled to a halt. So something is deeply wrong, either with the internal hard drive itself, or with the buses. I’ll be on the phone with Apple today. We’ll see what happens.
Since I’m up, at least in safe mode, I’d like to copy my iPhoto Library to something. It’s about 45GB, which rules out burning to DVD or uploading over the web. I think I’ll pick up a new drive today and copy it to that, just for safe keeping. All this hard drive instability makes me nervous as hell.