Ok so I have a Macbook purchased in late August 2008.
Here are the specs.
2.4 GHz
3 MB of L2 Cache
4 Gb of RAM
GMA X3100 Chipset
144 MB of VRAM
So about December I replaced my old 250 GB Hard drive for a 300 GB drive and everything was fine with the back-up. About 2 months later I installed Windows XP via Bootcamp. 3 weeks ago I wanted to remove the partition and I needed to send my macbook in for repairs but the problem is when ever I backed the had drive up when I boot off the back-up, every application quits unexpectedly even the crash reporter. I have backed up several times. Eventually I removed the Bootcamp partition without backing up. Even then I had the same problem. I’ve tried formatting the external drive to Mac OSX Extended (Journaled) and even with a GUID Partition Tabe and it still didn’t work.Also when I try to repair disk permissionsit says that a bunch of files are lrw-r–r– and sould be -rw-r–r– or are lrw-rw-r– and souls be -rw-rw-r– and warnings about a few SUID files being modified and could not be repaired.
Here is the log:
2009-07-07 16:35:44 -0400: Permissions differ on “System/Library/Frameworks/CoreVideo.framework/Versions/A/CodeResources”, should be -rw-r–r– , they are lrw-r–r– .
2009-07-07 16:35:46 -0400: Permissions differ on “private/var/log/secure.log”, should be -rw——- , they are -rw-r—– .
2009-07-07 16:35:46 -0400: Permissions differ on “System/Library/CoreServices/AirPort Base Station Agent.app/Contents/CodeResources”, should be -rw-r–r– , they are lrw-r–r– .
2009-07-07 16:35:46 -0400: Permissions differ on “Applications/Utilities/AirPort Utility.app/Contents/CodeResources”, should be -rw-rw-r– , they are lrw-rw-r– .
2009-07-07 16:35:47 -0400: Permissions differ on “System/Library/Components/CoreMediaAuthoringPrivateComponents.component/Contents/CodeResources”, should be -rw-r–r– , they are lrw-r–r– .
2009-07-07 16:35:47 -0400: Permissions differ on “System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreMediaAuthoringPrivate.framework/Versions/A/CodeResources”, should be -rw-r–r– , they are lrw-r–r– .
2009-07-07 16:35:47 -0400: Permissions differ on “System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreMediaIOServicesPrivate.framework/Versions/A/CodeResources”, should be -rw-r–r– , they are lrw-r–r– .
2009-07-07 16:35:47 -0400: Permissions differ on “System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreMediaIOServicesPrivate.framework/Versions/A/Resources/AVC.plugin/Contents/CodeResources”, should be -rw-r–r– , they are lrw-r–r– .
2009-07-07 16:35:47 -0400: Permissions differ on “System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreMediaIOServicesPrivate.framework/Versions/A/Resources/IIDC.plugin/Contents/CodeResources”, should be -rw-r–r– , they are lrw-r–r– .
2009-07-07 16:35:47 -0400: Permissions differ on “System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreMediaIOServicesPrivate.framework/Versions/A/Resources/MPEGAudioDecoder.component/Contents/CodeResources”, should be -rw-r–r– , they are lrw-r–r– .
2009-07-07 16:35:47 -0400: Permissions differ on “System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreMediaIOServicesPrivate.framework/Versions/A/Resources/MPEGLayer2AudioEncoder.component/Contents/CodeResources”, should be -rw-r–r– , they are lrw-r–r– .
2009-07-07 16:35:47 -0400: Permissions differ on “System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreMediaIOServicesPrivate.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Tundra.component/Contents/CodeResources”, should be -rw-r–r– , they are lrw-r–r– .
2009-07-07 16:35:47 -0400: Permissions differ on “System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreMediaIOServicesPrivate.framework/Versions/A/Resources/VDC.plugin/Contents/CodeResources”, should be -rw-r–r– , they are lrw-r–r– .
2009-07-07 16:35:47 -0400: Permissions differ on “System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreMediaPrivate.framework/Versions/A/CodeResources”, should be -rw-r–r– , they are lrw-r–r– .
2009-07-07 16:35:48 -0400: Permissions differ on “System/Library/CoreServices/Front Row.app/Contents/CodeResources”, should be -rw-r–r– , they are lrw-r–r– .
2009-07-07 16:35:48 -0400: Permissions differ on “System/Library/CoreServices/Front Row.app/Contents/PlugIns/DVD.frappliance/Contents/CodeResources”, should be -rw-r–r– , they are lrw-r–r– .
2009-07-07 16:35:48 -0400: Permissions differ on “System/Library/CoreServices/Front Row.app/Contents/PlugIns/FRSettings.frappliance/Contents/CodeResources”, should be -rw-r–r– , they are lrw-r–r– .
2009-07-07 16:35:48 -0400: Permissions differ on “System/Library/CoreServices/Front Row.app/Contents/PlugIns/FRSources.frappliance/Contents/CodeResources”, should be -rw-r–r– , they are lrw-r–r– .
2009-07-07 16:35:48 -0400: Permissions differ on “System/Library/CoreServices/Front Row.app/Contents/PlugIns/Movies.frappliance/Contents/CodeResources”, should be -rw-r–r– , they are lrw-r–r– .
2009-07-07 16:35:48 -0400: Permissions differ on “System/Library/CoreServices/Front Row.app/Contents/PlugIns/Music.frappliance/Contents/CodeResources”, should be -rw-r–
I tried SuperDuper!, CCC, Intego, Net Backup 5 or something like that and everything imaginable.


You don’t say how you did the backup, but this can happen with a simple file copy. I can recommend either SuperDuper! which clones the hard drive exactly, or Mac’s own Time Machine.