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From: g556871349ea@deneb.ucdavis.edu (0040;0000004278;0;745;352;)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: I just thrashed my Hard Disk!
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Date: 14 Jun 88 17:27:38 GMT
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Reply-To: g556871349ea@deneb.ucdavis.edu.UUCP (Colin Ong)
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In article <3599@okstate.UUCP> ericc@a.cs.okstate.edu (Eric Cloninger) writes:
>Next time I run the program (in the LSC environment), not only do I get an
>unsuccessful parse (where it was correct before), the program jumps into
>the debugger (Macsbug).  No problem, I type ES (Escape to Shell), the drive
>light turns on.  Ah, I think, going back to the editor.  30 seconds later,
>no editor, drive light still on.  Hmmmm.
>Anyway, I hit the reboot button, the machine restarts, and then... BOOM!
>The machine requests a system disk.  ACK!  Don't panic.  So I stick in a
>system disk and I get a dialog box "This disk is damaged (picture of HD 20)
>want to initialize? (CANCEL/INITIALIZE)".  I hit cancel.  Floppy disk comes

I see I might be too late but a similar situation occured to me last night
while programming with TP. I have EVEREX hard disks which come with a utility
which rewrites the SCSI blocks (or something) which is called install which 
mounts a hard disk which refuses to mount aotomatically. Any way, once the hd
got mounted, I dragged a new system onto the malfunctioning hd and then it
worked as usual. I was doing disk saves when the crash happened. I have no
guarantees that this procedure could work for anyone else. I have only used
MacZap on floppies but I imagine it might have been worth a try on your hd.

| Colin Ong   Department of Land, Air and Water Resources
|             University of California, Davis, CA   95616
|             UUCP: g556871349ea@deneb.ucdavis.edu
| Disclaimer: I make no warranties about my advice and do you really
|             think that the UC would either? No way.