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From: lad@eplrx7.UUCP (Lawrence Dziegielewski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: HELP!!
Message-ID: <537@eplrx7.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Nov-87 10:00:16 EST
Article-I.D.: eplrx7.537
Posted: Wed Nov 18 10:00:16 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Nov-87 03:12:10 EST
Organization: E.I. DuPont Co. Engineering Physics Lab
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Keywords: My Mac II disk is down


I have a major crisis here.  One of my Mac II's equipped with an Apple
80 meg hard disk just decided to go south for the winter.  The events that
led up to the crash are:

	1.	We were working in MPW c,  (like we always do),  and had			just finished compiling a program.  Quit MPW.

	2. 	Moved our finished application to a floppy.

	3.	Reboot. (This is where the problem began).

Upon rebooting,  the Mac became stuck at the "Welcome to
Macintosh" banner.  Since it stayed there for more than
7 minutes,  I decided to push the dreaded programmer's 
switch.

From then on,  whenever the Mac tries to boot,  the 'happy mac' shows up for
about 3 or 4 seconds,  and then disappears to a blinking ? disk icon.

This is what I tried to do to get it back:

	1.	Apple HD SC Setup,  vers 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 & 1.5
		Tried the 'Update' function.  HDSC Setup recognizes the
		Apple drive at SCSI #2,  and successfully updates the
		driver,  but no boot. (HDSC recoginzes the vol name too).

	2.	Disk First Aid.	Recognizes the volume "Apple 80".  I
		usually hit the "CNTL-S" so I can see what's going on inside
		the program.  Disk 1st Aid starts checking the disk,  and	
		always stops after checking the catalog btree with an
		"Unable to verify status of disk" error.  No dice,  no boot.

	3.	Various and sundry things,  including just booting a 
		floppy,  upon which the Mac tells me "This disk is damaged,
		Do you want to initialize?"   NO!,  of course not,  my
		data is still there!!!

I'm stumped.  My data is still on that disk,  we don't have a recent backup,
(I know,  I know,  please,  no messages saying "You should back up, I KNOW!),
and I'm in deep poop.  

I'm offering a reward for the person who can help me out of this problem.
I'll buy that person a ticket to the SF MacWorld Expo (air fare and hotel
not included).  


Thanks in advance for your consideration.


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