Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!richsun!kenk
From: kenk@richsun.UUCP (Ken Konecki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Hard disk won't initialize
Keywords: bad media, initialize, rats
Message-ID: <87@richsun.UUCP>
Date: 17 Nov 88 13:49:45 GMT
Reply-To: kenk@richsun.UUCP (Ken Konecki)
Distribution: na
Organization: RICH Inc. , Franklin Park,IL
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I always hoped it would never happen to me.....

I have a basic Mac SE: 1 Meg RAM, 20 Meg internal hard disk. Yes-
terday  evening  I  began  to  do a complete backup with Diskfit.
After the first floppy of the smart set was filled, the hard disk
started making a very rythmic 'kerchunk'ing noise and Diskfit was
getting -36 errors and was reporting them as I/O error/Bad Media.
Things  are  not  looking good.

I cancelled the backup procedure, and  after  more  rythmic  ker-
chunking  I  was told that the finder was >poof<  gone. Ok, fine.
Click on restart.  More kerchunking, followed by  a  floppy  disk
icon   with  a  big question mark.  Bad,  real bad.   I popped in
the system floppy and got the Mac to boot  (the  hard  disk  ker-
chunking  happily  away...)  with one problem: the  desktop shows
no hard disk. Well, things are now beyond real bad.

After the hard disk stopped its kerchunking I try  running   Disk
First Aid,  in  hopes that maybe something can be done. Nope, the
drive just ain't there as far as anyone's concerned. Rats.  Okay,
I   say  to myself, looks like I have to reinitialize the disk. I
run the HD setup program provided on the System  disk,  click  on
initialize  and  >surprise<,  the  software indicates a potential
hardware failure, can't initialize.

Question time: What happened?
               What can I do about the  problem?  (and  how  much
		will it cost? :-)

Please E-Mail responses to me.

Thanks,
        -Ken K
-- 
Ken Konecki
kenk@richsun.UUCP	-or-	...!uunet!richsun!kenk	-or- kenk@richp1.UUCP
"A squeegee by any other name wouldn't sound as funny"