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From: ajq@mace.cc.purdue.edu (John O'Malley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Mac II won't rebuild Desktop
Message-ID: <1550@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 24 Jan 89 15:46:22 GMT
Reply-To: ajq@mace.cc.purdue.edu (John O'Malley)
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
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A professor on campus has a Mac II with a 40 meg internal HD, and it
appears to have contracted severe desktop problems.  The Mac told him
that it had a broken desktop file, and then it couldn't rebuild it.

He says he tried the option-command trick when loading Finder, using
MacTools, DiskFirstAid, and the test function of Apple HD SC Setup, though
nothing seemed to work.

The Mac won't load the Finder anymore, and when booting from a floppy,
it gives the same error and won't mount the hard disk.

The disk, he says, is about 3/4 full (30 megs or so of files), and he'd
like to avoid reinitializing it if he can.

Any suggestions?  Might Symantics Utilities be able to fix the disk?


John O'Malley           / Macintosh  / Purdue University / (317)
mace.cc.purdue.edu!ajq / Specialist / Computing Center  / 494-1787