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In article <2982@mit-amt> phil@mit-amt (a phil sohn) writes:
>	I crashed the hard disk on one of our Mac II and would
>like some help recovering it.  All the files are still there,
>but they are not visible from the finder, only from SFGetFile
>boxes and such.  I have tried rebuilding the desktop to no avail.
>I am not looking forward to putting all the files on floppies or
>some other medium.
>
>
>						phil
	I suggest you try the following.  Boot the machine from floppy, with a 
disk containing the latest system and finder and a program that lets you delete 
files, like MacTools, ResEdit etc.  Make this program the startup application.
	This should launch you into the program, and the mac II's hard disk 
should appear.  Proceed to DELETE the desktop on the Mac II.  Sometimes 
rebuilding the desktop is not enough.  You won't lose anything that isn't 
already on the harddisk, maybe some icons from programs that you have trashed, 
maybe a few comments, but after deleting the desktop, then quiting and allowing 
the system build a new one should return your hard disk into working order.
	It doesn't sound like you've trashed your volume table, so I think that 
the desktop is your only trouble, anyway if it fails, you haven't really done 
any extra damage to your hard disk.

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