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Article #389Re: Hard Disk Crashed! HELP ME!
From: Don Harris
Date: Sun, 09 Feb 1997 00:00
Date: Sun, 09 Feb 1997 00:00
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In article <retnop1-0802972211110001@pa9dsp9.orf.infi.net>, retnop1@norfolk.infi.net (Rick Ponter) wrote: > 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. > > > > 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. > I think it is a tuff problem but not the most difficult. What if the formatter does not recognize the drive? How does one write a new driver, then? Use Silverlining Lite if you have it and set the prefs to install driver upon restart. Pick your scsi id and reboot. Do this after installing 'Lite.' Lite is a cdev.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f4b7a,8ad012959b5b3fc7 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4b7a,public X-Google-Thread: fe136,8ad012959b5b3fc7 X-Google-Attributes: gidfe136,public X-Google-Thread: 10c648,8ad012959b5b3fc7 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c648,public X-Google-Thread: feb82,8ad012959b5b3fc7 X-Google-Attributes: gidfeb82,public X-Google-Thread: 10b5e3,8ad012959b5b3fc7 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b5e3,public X-Google-Thread: 1156c9,8ad012959b5b3fc7 X-Google-Attributes: gid1156c9,public X-Google-Thread: 10e148,8ad012959b5b3fc7 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e148,public X-Google-Thread: f64bf,8ad012959b5b3fc7 X-Google-Attributes: gidf64bf,public From: harrisd@ili.net (Don Harris) Subject: Re: Hard Disk Crashed! HELP ME! Date: 1997/02/09 Message-ID: <harrisd-0902971924240001@206.250.201.132> X-Deja-AN: 217678743 references: <855390828.26002@dejanews.com> <retnop1-0802972211110001@pa9dsp9.orf.infi.net> organization: I Link Int newsgroups: alt.sys.mac.newuser-help,aus.computers.mac,comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system,slo.mac