Darcy, Doug, et.al., Thanks again, so much. It turns out, miracle of miracles, after days of trying to get my hard drive to work, on advice of a friend I left it on all night with the OS 9 CD booted up, and while I was talking today to a very nice tech guy from MacConnection about buying a new drive, suddendly my HD desktop appeared. I haven't a clue why, but I've been able to reinitialize my drive and reinstall OS 9 and happily my nightmare seems to be over. I did save most of my files to CD when things had started to get strange, and was already considering buying a dedicated HD for audio when all this happened. Now I will make sure to also get a bootable PCI card to hook it up to. I did lose some irreplaceable personal audio files but have most of my essential business stuff on ZIP or CD's. And It'll take a while to reinstall all my software and reconfigure everything. But I'm hoping now I can put off buying a new Mac until more software developers catch up to OS 10. (That is my beef with Apple--do they really have to not allow OS 9 to be viable any more in order to sell computers? They are alienating their loyal customers at the same time they're trying to get people to switch to Macs.) Anyway, thanks for sympathy and good advice! Bonnie
on 2/9/03 5:00 PM, Darcy James Argue at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am forwarding this post to the list on the assumption that Doug > didn't intend this as a private message. > > On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 08:29 PM, Doug Auwarter wrote: > >> on 2/9/03 6:52 PM, Darcy James Argue at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> Hard >>> drives sometimes fail, that's just a fact of life.), that is extremely >>> easy and inexpensive to replace. >> But the havoc they wreak when they do isn't easy to deal with. This >> happened >> to me and it was a disaster. >> I now have an outboard LaCie drive on which I back-up everything on a >> daily >> basis (or at least every day that I do substantial work.) Another >> cost-effective solution is to back up your documents folder on a cd >> (or two >> or more, if necessary.) At their current price of about 20� apiece >> (when >> purchased in 100 count quantities) that's not much to spend for the >> security >> against data loss (and hair loss, appetite loss and all the rest.) >> Best, >> Doug >> >> > - Darcy > > ----- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Boston MA > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
