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Hmmm, yes I guess you're right, since I should be using hte CD's finder &
system.
Can anyone tell me what (apart from drivers) could be on the HD that would be
needed for the CD system to see it?
My thinking was that the disk must be ok, if I could boot from it and drag&drop
etc.

Rebecca and Rowland wrote:

> 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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