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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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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