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From: schmidt@lsrhs.UUCP (Chris Schmidt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: HELP!!
Message-ID: <596@lsrhs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Nov-87 09:01:39 EST
Article-I.D.: lsrhs.596
Posted: Fri Nov 20 09:01:39 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 27-Nov-87 05:50:43 EST
References: <537@eplrx7.UUCP>
Reply-To: schmidt@lsrhs.UUCP (Chris Schmidt)
Organization: Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, Sudbury, MA
Lines: 26
Keywords: My Mac II disk is down

In article <537@eplrx7.UUCP> lad@eplrx7.UUCP (Lawrence Dziegielewski) writes:

>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.  

Well, I had a similar problem, twice, and solved it both times using two
different methods.  The first time, the answer was embarrasingly simple.  I
booted from a floppy while holding command-option in order to rebuild the
desktop.  Even though I thought everything had been trashed -- and I DID
have trouble just like yours -- it worked.

The second time, when things degraded even further, I brought the whole
friggin' box to the dealer's service center.  The folks there were typically
ignorant/moronic BUT they had an Apple release (copy protected!) Mac ][
diagnostic disk.  It worked!  I saved everything and pleaded for a copy of
that magic diskette, BUT THEY WOULDN'T LET ME HAVE IT!  Apple, why haven't
we been given access to this wonderful software?  Is this an open machine,
or not?


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