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Dave Besnard <daveb@charmf.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
> I have to hardware support many Mac's of differing types in an office
> environment. One user of a 8500/120 ( the only one in the office ) has
> had a severe virus attack which infected system and application files.
> The viruses have been removed but the damaged system files are causing
> bombing out. The OS on this m/c is 7.5.5 and the install CDROM has been
> lost. As this system contains vital data files any disaster recovery
> must not lose these.

I'm sure you don't need someone preaching at you, but if you're storing
'vital data files' you should really have backups somewhere. An
anti-virus program would be useful as well; there are several commercial
packages, or Disinfectant is free from various local sites or:

ftp://ftp.nwu.edu/pub/disinfectant

> I do have immediate access to OS 7.6.1 but I need to know whether this
> version will be ok. I have used several different hard drives in this
> machine and it will not boot versions 7.5.1 or 7.5.3 but will 7.5.5 !!

I can't seem to get at Apple's technical sites in order to confirm this,
but it seems like the 8500/120 needs something (an enabler?) that's part
of System 7.5.5 in order to boot. If this particular thing is in 7.5.5
it will be in any later versions, so 7.6.1 will be fine (make sure it's
a licensed copy!). It is also essential to perform a 'clean install', so
you leave any gungey parts of your old system behind.

If you fancy upgrading, System 8.0 has many enhancements and seems
pretty stable, although this may not be the time.

Hope this helps (anyone disagree?)


Cheers,

Mark

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Mark Etherington
mark@roxley.demon.co.uk