Dear Noderaser,
If you boot from the OS9.1 cd that becomes your startup hard drive. You
will see the OS9.1 as your new system. The hard drive icon will be on
the desktop also. Click on the icon to open it. It will have the
applications, documents, and other folders on it. There is a "previous
system" folder with all the control panels and preferences etc. from
the previous setup in there also.
You then can take the third party preferences etc. from the "previous
system" folder and transfer them to the new system folder so you can
use your third party apps etc. I hope this works for you.
I am not responsible for any lose of data. Take this advice at your own
risk, although it works for me.
Bob
On Aug 11, 2005, at 4:46 PM, NODEraser wrote:
I have a PowerMac 6100/66 with a G3/266 upgrade and OS 9.1, that I use
as a "master" fileserver and research machine while I'm working on my
other, older Macs. I have a couple hundred megabytes of software on
there that I'd rather not loose (a lot of software when we're talking
system 6 and 7). Recently, being the complete idiot I am, I ran an
older version of Norton utilities on the harddrive and it "fixed" it
for me. Unfortunately, this older version of Norton thinks HFS+ is an
error that needs to be fixed. And, it did just that.
Now, I have to boot from the CD or a floppy, and I get an error -127
when I try and mount my hard disk using Drive Setup. Is there a way I
can at least get to my files to copy them safely somewhere else before
having to re-initialize? It would not be the end of the world if I
could not recover those files, but it would absolutely suck because
the original drives/disks that some of the software came on are gone
or broken.
Any help in recovering these files would be appreciated. I have
another Mac (albeit an SE/30) with the same size hard drive that I can
transfer everything via Network to, but I need to be able to access
the files on the PowerMac first.
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