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From: tom@Mills.berkeley.edu (Tom Erbe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: hard disk troubles
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Date: 6 Apr 88 16:58:22 GMT
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In article <5944@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> finin@antares.PRC.Unisys.COM (Tim Finin) writes:
>
>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
>

The way to use a disk repairing program with a dead hard disk is to: put the
system/finder on the disk with the repair program, make the repair program
the startup application, then boot to this disk with the hard disk attached
and running.  This way, the Mac will not mark the hard disk as unusable
until you quit the repair program and return to the finder.

Tom Erbe-Technical Director-Center for Contemporary Music-Mills College
         tom@mills.berkeley.edu   -or-   tom@jiff.berkeley.edu