Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 20:53:18 -0500 From: Helen Ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Zip Drive disk problem
When I inserted my Zip disk with photos on it I get the window that says: "This disk is unreadable by this computer, do you want to initialize the disk? "
The only choice is initialize & erase or eject.
Is there any hope of getting anything off of the disk?
Beige G3 - OS 8.6 - basically stock w/320mgb RAM standard CD, 2 - zip drives. one internal one external (don't know why - that's the way it turned out) Neither drive accepts the disk.
(One of these days I gotta figure out what CD burner will work with this system and then save photos on a CD.)
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I tried Norton Util 5.0 and was able to repair some things it said needed repairing, but was still unable to read the disk. Disk FIrst Aid said there was nothing wrong.
There was one point I had left out and that was the complete reinstall of system OS 8.6 and all software that was done last week. Well, yesterday I noticed the reinstalled system was not HFS + so tonight I erased the hard drive and reinstalled everything all over again with HFS+ and now the disk is readable.
(I sorta miss the simple days of OS6 - awww . . . . not really)
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Ron House O' Hounds http://www.imageevent.com/helenron http://www.geocities.com/helenron.geo
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