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From: finin@antares.PRC.Unisys.COM (Tim Finin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: hard disk troubles
Message-ID: <5944@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM>
Date: 6 Apr 88 03:14:01 GMT
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I'm having hard luck with my hard disk.  Again.  I'm looking for
suggestions and advice.

Something has spontaneously screwed up my apple HD20 on my Mac.  The
symptom is that when the machine is booted, it does not recognize the
HD20 as a formatted disk.  More specifically, when the machine boots
with the HD20 on and plugged in, it shows me the "?" icon and waits
for me to put a floppy disk in with a system on it.  Once the system
shows up, it tells me that the HD20 is not a Mac disk and asks me if I
want to initialize it.  I say no, of course.  If I later try to force
the Mac to access the HD20, it again gives me a dialogue box in which
it declares the HD20 to not be a Mac disk and asks me if I want to
cancel or initialize.

This same thing happened once before, about a year ago.  I simply
accepted the problem and went ahead and re-initialized the disk.  I'd
like to not go this route again.  I was able to run the hard disk
diagnostic program which came with the disk.  It says that it's fine.
I imagine that if I get copies of any of the "disk repairing" programs
(mine  were all on the HD20!) that they won't be able to successfully
access the HD20 because the Mac things it's not intialized.

I'd appreciate any thoughts or advice.

Tim

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