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Re: Problem with MacOS 8.1

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From: Alex Madden
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 00:00
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Simon Slavin <slavins.at.hearsay.demon.co.uk@localhost> wrote:
> > 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 ?

Thats what I figured, but Norton, Disk First Aid, Drive Setup and CP
Diskfix all reported no problems. 

I decided to network another mac to it, copy all the personal files to
it, and then format the little bugger. So far it seems to have worked.

Thanks for the help Simon,

Alex 
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From: Alex@nospam.demon.co.uk (Alex Madden)
Subject: Re: Problem with MacOS 8.1
Date: 1998/07/19
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