Forced Reboot via RDC now my mac doesn't boot unless i unplug one of 3 harddrives

[zurie]

Ok. I have a 10.6.3 snow leo hackintosh. Everything was running great. I was remote deskoped in from work and my macs finder froze up. I tried to quit the finder and it didn't like that so much. So in RDC i did a "force reboot" and my mac never came back on in RDC. so fast forward a few hours when I got home, I saw my mac was frozen at boot way before it even hits the mach_kernel... like right after bios but before chameleon kicks in.

 

So i have a backup HD, no matter what I do i can't get any thing to work.. but... i unplug my Time Machine volume, and the mac will boot up.

 

So i go into my Retail partition and i check things out, everything is fine. I have a backup drive its also fine.. I can boot either, but no matter what I do, if i plug in my Time Machine drive the mac freezes before chameleon kicks in. at the spinning / | \ | / | slash thing...

 

I hooked up macdrive on a windows PC and I can see the time machine volume is there in windows 7 but when I open it up I just see a bunch of hidden folders and (time machine) stuff but it freezes if i try and access it... (this could be because of MacDrive on a PC)

 

any ideas what happened??? do you think the force reboot hosed my time machine volume (hardware wise) and it just fails to work on a computer... and this is causing my mac to not even respond???

 

should i boot into a Live CD of some sort and try and verify the drive? I would format it but I am having issues even getting a PC to boot up with that drive plugged in.. weird!

 

Western Digital btw.. and they are all {censored}!!! i've lost a bunch of WD harddrives to failure over the years.. worst drives ever...