>Oh dear great all-knowing duo listers, lend me your ear...
>
>i have this Duo 270c that i recently put a 280c motherboard in, then
>installed OS 8.0. it had some trouble starting up, then it started
>working decently enough that i went for the 8.1 update. now it won't
>startup, you can hear the drive start cranking with the happy mac
>face up, and then it quits cranking, and sits and whirrs with the
>happy mac face on the screen. it will boot up from the CDRom off of
>the 8.0 CD with the 4-finger salute (i've got it down to three) but
>not the C key, and i've tried Disk First Aid, Techtool 1.2.1, disk
>warrior 1.1. tried down-dating the disk driver back to 8.0,
>extensions off, all tests come back A-ok. and everytime it's the
>same: boots up "normal", drive starts to crank (that's the sound it
>makes, fast cranking) and then it stops.
>
>based on early experience with this computer i suspect that the drive
>is bad. i'm just giving it the old "college try" (who ever made that
>up?).
>
>anyone have a drive to sell? don't need a very large one, perhaps
>you've upgraded yours lately? write to me offlist.
>
>TIA bob
Just another guess on my part, but wipe the drive totally.
Is it an apple drive ?
Depending on the answer, you then re-format from scratch using the apple
driver if its an apple drive or a 3rd party util if not.
Mad Dog
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