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I did that with both my external drives, but I know the internal drive was not. The repair guy came to my home, installed and transferred my info in a short time. That may be why it occurred. Thanks for the follow up, you just keep learning about these crazy machines all the time.

I went into the system prefs and all my drives popped up on my desktop allowing me to select the drive I wanted to boot from. All I had to do to get back to my primary internal drive was to reboot. For whatever reason on my system, holding down the c key at start up did not open a window to...

Thanks for your quick response. I fished thru the other posts and many pages back I got a hint about how to access my back up drive, and joy! it worked! I even booted from the back up. But thank you for responding.

I am running tiger os x and my internal hard drive is clicking like crazy and window shades me. I had previously backed up my system onto an external drive using super duper. I thought I could hold down the option key at start up and access all my drives ( have 3, an omega which the system is...