> Hi everyone,
>
> Well, my Duo 2300c arrived today, and it was doing beautifully-until
> somehow I screwed up. The previous owner had partitioned the drive
> into three volumes. As I was attempting to undo that using FWB
> HardDisk Toolkit, something went awry. I had successfully deleted the
> two spare volumes, making sure that the blessed System Folder was in
> the volume I had left. But when I restarted, I got the dreaded
> blinking question mark.
>
> ------------------------------
I had something similar happen when I got my first duo. Somehow I
screwed up the system file/folder when trying to install a different
system I had downloaded. Got the blinking ? and figured I was screwed
(no dock). Figuring I had nothing to lose I reset the PRAM (shft-cmd-p-r
or is it cmd-option-p-r?)) a few times and played with the reset
button. I don't recall exactly what I did but it finally found a system
folder and booted up.
PRAM is where the Startup Disk info is stored as the computer knows what
disk to look for before it loads any data from any disk. Maybe you can
get it to look for your good partition System folder if you ZAP it a few
times. Nothing to lose.
Greg
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