Restore works ONLY when external HDD connected?!

I had my laptop (MacBook A) sent away for repair, and in the meantime I used a temporarily purchased one (MacBook B) which I restored from Time Machine.
Now a month later, I received A back, and restored it from the last backup on B (last night). All seemed to work fine, until I tried using A unattached to the external HDD. When it is not connected, A turns back into the computer it was the day I sent it for repair, as if I did no restore from back-up at all... but when I connect it to the HDD again, it turns back into a clone of B as it should. I also hear the external HDD whirring when accessing certain programs, which makes me think it's accessing the restore directly from the HDD not the laptop. What did I do wrong?
Any help would be appreciated as I am leaving the country in 2 days for 3.5 weeks and need A to work properly!

Bagtown99 wrote:
I had my laptop (MacBook A) sent away for repair, and in the meantime I used a temporarily purchased one (MacBook B) which I restored from Time Machine.
Now a month later, I received A back, and restored it from the last backup on B (last night). All seemed to work fine, until I tried using A unattached to the external HDD. When it is not connected, A turns back into the computer it was the day I sent it for repair, as if I did no restore from back-up at all... but when I connect it to the HDD again, it turns back into a clone of B as it should. I also hear the external HDD whirring when accessing certain programs, which makes me think it's accessing the restore directly from the HDD not the laptop. What did I do wrong?!?!
Any help would be appreciated as I am leaving the country in 2 days for 3.5 weeks and need A to work properly!
Did you do a restore by booting from Leopard DVD and using the Restore in the menu?
If you look on the TM drive do you see one, two or three backup directories?
Message was edited by: nerowolfe

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