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In article <lucozade-2507951728410001@dialup-a33.netspace.net.au> lucozade@netspace.net.au (Luke Maslen) writes:

>(David Morrison) wrote:

>> I had a power glitch the other day while formatting a SCSI hard disk. Since 
>> then, none of the formatters I have will touch it. They say that the drive is 
>> not ready,  even though they have managed to find out that it is a Conner 
>> 200MB hard disk.
>> 
>> Can I do anything with the disk? Or is it destined for the junk bin :-(

What were you using to format the drive?  Which formatters do you have that 
won't touch it?

>I'm sure that your HD will be OK.  I take it that there is no data on it
>that you need to save?  Assuming this, I would add to Andrew Lade's
>comments and suggest that you use Norton Disk Doctor and/or Volume Recover
>from the Norton Utilities 3.1 package.  These have a fair chance of
>modifying your HD so that it is recognised by your Mac.  In particular, I
>think that if Volume Recover fails, it might offer an "Unformat" option. 
>I'm 70% sure of this.  Once you have got your HD back in a recognisable
>state, you can then format it again.

I doubt that this will work (assuming the original poster was doing a 
low-level erase rather than a Finder erase).  The general sequence of events 
is format, partition, install driver, mount volumes, initialize with Finder 
erase.  If the drive was being low-level formatted, then it probably has no 
driver on it, in which case Norton Disk Doctor will be unable to mount it.


-Ericb@psu.edu