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pedro wrote:
 

> John Rethorst wrote:
>
>
>> In article <SHGle.3409$BR4.2701@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
>> pedro <pedro@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I can't format the hd, since it has all the programs on it. I used 
>>> to be able to run the progs on it when it booted.
>>>  
>>
>>
>> Copy the hd's contents somewhere else, and format the hd. This is 
>> good practice every year or so anyway (some will say more often), and 
>> IMO a necessary part of bringing your old computer back into a useful 
>> state.
>>
>
> Yes, that is a conclusion I have reached also. Now I just need to work 
> on the 'somewhere else' bit.  :)
>
> And that's one of the big advantages of having a Mac of course- the 
> ability to drag programs around and still have them work!
>
>

Problem solved! It was not as horrendous as I had imagined. It was 
defective media- the 800 k disks. (Why didn't anyone think of that??)  
But I did, and made new disks, booted from the main disk and ran the 
installer prog to install sys 6.0.8 on the HD, and the Mac now boots 
happily from it! Whew! So the original system on the HD (whatever it 
was) must have been corrupted somehow. The Mac seems to run faster too. 
But two more questions.. what prog and version should I use to check the 
hd for faults and errors? and.. can I format new 1.44 mb floppies to 
800k format, to avoid using my old 800k disks and risk having this 
problem again? Thanks, (sorry for my ignorance on these matters)

 

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