Today the system on my Color Classic (7.1) reported a system error in the bomb dialog box (the one with the little bomb icon, and the restart button never works) Well, when I restart it comes up with a happy mac, whirrs, then it makes a loud static-like sound. Then the flashing floppy icon comes up (no system found). Speaking the obvious, I conclude that either the system is corrupted, or the hard drive gave up the ghost, but with the static sound, I tend to think it is the fault of the hard drive. My second question, related to the first, is this: I have no cheap alternative for a external hard drive and because of my lack of expirience in compacts with crt's, I do not want to go rummaging around inside to replace the hard drive (if the hard drive is the problem). I do have a zip drive hooked up, though, and since I am not using the CC for many disk-intensive applications, can I use the zip drive as the startup disk? I know it requires a system extension to be recognized but I thought I remembered somewhere that there was a key command to boot from the zip....maybe it was my imagination. Anyway, if anyone has any ideas, please post them. Thanks!
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