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From: mha@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Mark H. Anbinder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Hard drive woes
Message-ID: <8367@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 11 Jul 89 01:52:03 GMT
Reply-To: mha@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Mark H. Anbinder)
Organization: Baka Industries, Ithaca, New York
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I'm having a lot of trouble with my internal Rodime 1400RX.  When I try
to fill it with files copied from the old drive I'm replacing, and I
get to some point on the drive (not sure where) I can't copy anything
else onto it.  

The symptoms?  When I try to Finder-copy ANYTHING on, even something
small, the Finder hangs at the "Updating desktop file..." stage of the
copy procedure.  Everything has seemed to copy properly until that point,
but when I eventually restart the machine, obviously none of the files
I've just copied are visible.

I'd really like to be able to use all the space I paid for.  Does anyone
know what might be wrong with this drive?

I've reinstalled the Rodime driver, and even erased the disk using Disk
Express' Erase Disk command.  Is there something else I can try short of
reformatting the disk entirely?  I'd rather leave my partitions the way
they are... a couple of them can't be conveniently backed up.


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