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From: allon@eng.umd.edu (Allon Stern)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Hard Disk woes...
Summary: initialize!?!? What do you mean initialize?!?!?
Keywords: hard disk, won't boot, problems
Message-ID: <1990Mar18.224355.9745@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 18 Mar 90 22:43:55 GMT
Sender: allon@bagend.eng.umd.edu  (allon stern)
Organization: Maryversity of Uniland, College Park
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My 40 Meg Apple hard disk has been having problems.  First, let me state that
it is not a Quantum.  It is a Segate (at least thats what it says on the
controller board).  Lately it will not boot, and when booting from a floppy,
when it tries to mount the HD, it seeks around for a while, then comes back
and says that it is damaged, and do I want to initalize it.

I had a friend come over with his 44meg removable SCSI HD, and when I tried
to show him the problem, the mac booted (Thanks, Murphy!).  So, we made a
copy of my HD onto a spare removable HD of his, so I have a current backup.
I then tried initializing the HD with the Apple SC setup program, then loaded
my stuff back onto the drive.  But the problem won't go away.  What can I do?
Any other thoughts, or suggestions?  I'm probably going to wind up taking
it to a dealer and get a new HD in return for the old one (they get credit
for old drives, don't they?).  The computer/drive (it's a drive sold by Apple)
is only about a year old -- Oh, sorry, it's a Mac II with an internal drive.

Thanks.  Please reply by E-Mail, since I have a couple of programming assignments
and lots of homework, and a test to study for, and may not have time to read
news for a while.

                             - -= Allon =- -

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