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From: anders@verity.com (Anders Wallgren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: System 7.0 <=> dead HD?
Message-ID: <1991Apr4.212804.15666@verity.com>
Date: 4 Apr 91 21:28:04 GMT
References: <1991Apr4.151845.17768@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
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In-Reply-To: jtsweet@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Jonathan Thoma Sweet)

In article <1991Apr4.151845.17768@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>, jtsweet@uokmax (Jonathan Thoma Sweet) writes:
>One of my friends across the hall is a Student Apple Rep. and he got
>a hold of 7.0b4 and used it quit a bit until he decided that after the
>multitude of bombs, and software not working (mostly AfterDark), he took 
>it off.
>
>Well funny thing, he reinstalled 6.07 and went to work, but he still had
>constant bombs.  Using Norton, he did a disk repair, it said "This hard
>drive has been used with system 7.0 I can not repair it."  What is this?
>Has anyone else had any problems like this?  Is this John S.'s way of
>telling us that if we don't use system 7.0 then we're screwed?
>

This message is a perfect example of why Apple would have to be out of
their f-ing minds to make pre-release system software available to the
general public.

RTFM - the directory structure has changed slightly for system 7,
which was pretty plainly documented in the installation instructions.
I believe this was right next to "this is pre-release software - don't
let it touch any important data, or you will loose."  This was
sprinkled liberally throughout all beta docs.

On a more helpful note, you can press the option key when clicking OK
on that Norton dialog and it will continue rather than quitting.
Again, I don't know what the risks are, so don't blame me if you get
hosed.

anders