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From: doner@henri.ucsb.edu (John Doner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: I ruined my hard disk with System 7.0
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Date: 4 Feb 91 17:06:56 GMT
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In article <91032.134415EHYOUNK@MTUS5.BITNET> EHYOUNK@MTUS5.BITNET writes:
>I would have to say that there is a good chance that this is a hardware problem
>.  Since the system software doesn't get load untill the computer can access
> the hard drive, I find it unlikely that sys 7 is your problem.  Your external
> HD is problely at fault.

In order to access the hard drive in any useful way, the mac must read
the driver off the drive itself.  So if the driver is damaged, you
have a problem that could look like a hardware problem.  You should
first try to update the driver itself.  Quoting from page 10 of
Apple's Macintosh Utilities User Guide, "You can also use Apple HD SC
Setup's Update command to replace a damaged driver without erasing
your disk."  If you have a non-Apple external drive, the manufacturer
should have supplied software similar to HD SC Setup for the same
purpose.


John E. Doner	doner@henri.ucsb.edu	(805)893-3941
Dept. Mathematics, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA 93106