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In article <855390828.26002@dejanews.com>, ddeham@galaxy.csc.calpoly.edu wrote:

> I have 2 internal hard disks in my Macintosh Quadra 610. Macintosh
> HD and La Cie 1250-Q. La Cie 1250-Q was my startup disk. When I
> booted up several days ago, it booted off of Macintosh HD instead
> of La Cie 1250-Q and it said something like "This disk is
> unreadable. Would you like to initialize it? Eject Initialize." I
> hit Eject and tried to fix La Cie 1250-Q with everything that I
> have; Disk First Aid 7.2.2, Norton Utilities 3.2.3, and MacTools
> Pro 4.0.3. I also analyzed it with Tech Tool Pro 1.0.1. Nothing
> can fix it, but Norton Unerase found all of my files.


OK- here is what needs to be done - hook up another drive (beg or borrow)
of the same size or larger. Second use a format utility to see if you can
write a new driver to the damaged disk long enough to mount the drive to
recover things intact (do not initialize just update the driver) if that
can't be done use Norton to recover the files. Third, reformat the drive
making sure the formatter is set to map out bad blocks (most do this
automatically). Fourth, reinstallall system software and applications from
original disks just to be sure. Pull data file from recovered data on
borrowed disk. Boot form the restored disk and set all control panels and
application memory partitions. Fifth, boot from other drive, run Norton
Disk Doctor and Spped Disk. Rebuild desktop with TechTool. Lastly, boot
from recovered disk, trash stuff from borrowed drive, and all should be
well with the world.

You have discovered about the most serious problem you can get so if you
recover from this nothing else will ever phase you. Let me kow if there is
any additional info I can provide, I do this stuff for a living and it is
not the first time I've been through this drill.

Later,
Rick

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