on 5/24/02 7:15 AM, Jesse Bennett at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ok... we got bigger problems today. This is beyond ram not working! > > Thanks for all the advice you gave me yesterday.... I went home and tried > to do a simple update from 8.5.1 to 8.6 (I've done this a hundred times > before with my older powercomputing clone). Halfway through the update the > installer came to an error and quit. I ran techtool to see if there was any > damage done and now I have a completely useless hard drive. I took the drive > out of the imac and put it into another case to try and fix it. Tried > nortons 6.0, techtool 3.0 and diskwarrior. The drive still won't mount. The > drive is a 4.0gb quantum fireball se. I'm not sure how to set it to slave > mode... could this be the problem... I just kept changing jumpers until the > computer booted off of it's own drive and not the imac's. >
For a Quantum, you should be able to remove the jumper between the data and power connections. If you flip the drive over and look at the bottom of it between those two other connections by the jumper block it should be labeled DS. Remove the DS jumper and your drive is a slave. Reinstall the DS jumper and your drive is master. Make sure it is a master before reinstalling it in your iMac. > Anyway.. norton's would attempt to fix it but would come to a part where it > said that the disk drivers would have to be installed to proceed any > further... and then quit. So I tried disk setup to install a new driver but > that didn't seem to help either. So tonight I'm going to try to get it to > mount using harddisk toolkit 3.0 and then if it does... work on it with > diskwarrior... I assume you have data you must keep and can't simply reformat the drive ?? If it won't reformat in a Mac (I had a 10 Gig and a 13 gig from iMacs that I tried everything to resurrect in my B&W G3 and they wouldn't do anything. Finally I needed a 10 Gig to sell with a PC and I popped the 10 Gig in the PC and fdisked (sp?) and formatted it then installed Windows XP Professional and boom, it worked great !!! I could probably pull it back out of the PC now and install it in the Mac. -- Aqua Tech [EMAIL PROTECTED] Macintosh & PC Computer Tech "Reality is that which when you stop believing in it does not go away." -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
