Re: P6400 OS8.5 Hard Disk Open Problem

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From: Rebecca and Rowland
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 00:00

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David Ferrington <david@alphadene.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Only thing I hadn't tried was zapping the pram ..
> that worked the first time I tried it, but I still couldn't see the
> harddisk when booting from CD, so I decieded to rebuild the desktop again.
> Just for good messure, I zapped the pram and then rebuilt the desktop in
> same startup, at least I would have done, except the Finder gave me a bus
> error!
> After more reboots etc, I'm back where I started - can't see HD in
[snip]

If you can't see the HD when booting from the CD, that points to a
problem with the disc rather than with the installed System or Finder
files.  I think the only practical solution is to re-format it :-/  If
you do a low-level format using Drive Setup, everything should be okay
afterwards.

Rowland.

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