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In article <1dcbu2f.1ury38pifsr8aN@shipmead.demon.co.uk>,
Alex@shipmead.demon.co.uk (The Madden Family) wrote:

> I've just installed MacOS 8.1 onto a Mac (performa 6200) today, it
> installed after a little bit of grief with various odd error messages
> ("This component requires MacOS 8" - hmmm..). 

It tried to install a System 8.1 thing into your old System
Folder, then decided it didn't fit.  Not a good sign.

Delete your System 8.1 stuff, restore the previous System Folder,
Run whatever Disk First Aid-style stuff you have, solve the problems,
and start again.  Depending on what version you were running
before, you might do best with a 'Clean Install' -- a good idea
in any case.

> However now I can't write to one of the Hard drive partitions (the one
> called system... however we won't go into that ;) It reports a "disk
> error -36" 

That's effectively 'disk I/O error' and usually means you have a
hardware or low-level disk format problem.  Have you done a surface
scan with Norton lately ?

Simon.
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