On Jun 26, 2004, at 11:05 PM, Karen Turner wrote:
Hi,
I have a 9600/300 Power Mac and I am having major problems. This morning when I attempted to fire it up, I got the blue floppy icon with the flashing question mark. I booted from both a Tech Tools CD and a Norton Utilities CD (ran Disk Doctor) and each found the same problem: Hard drive: System Folder: System. Disk Doctor attempted to fix the problem, but then told me I needed to reload software. As I bought this machine used off eBay a few years ago, I do not have the System Software CD to reboot it which I assume will fix the problem. It is running 9.1.2.
Karen....
You should definitely have a system disk at your disposal for times like this. Corruption occurs for no good reason at times. I wouldn't go as far as erasing your hard drive, but you can 'Restore' it without losing everything else you have 'gathered' since you purchased your Mac.
Except items stored inside the system suitcase: sounds and keyboard layouts. Since both Tech Tools and Norton found the problem to be in the System file (suitcase), there's no need to restore all System Software. Just drag a fresh copy of the System file to the System Folder. Now, is there an OS 9.1.2? I don't think so.
Harold
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