At 1:33 AM +0100 7/6/02, Liam Cassidy wrote:
>I'm a newcomer to the world of Mac.
>I've just been given a PowerBook 3400c as a gift. Mac OS 8.5 is
>installed (I think). This model doesn't have an internal CD module -
>just floppy. ANyway, it wasn't booting, but I used Disk Tools on a
>floppy to run Disk First Aid.
>
>It tells me that the Macintosh HD has problems. The message is;
>
>"Invalid BTree node size, 3, 0"
>
>Anyone have any ideas?
>
>I'd love to find a way to get this Mac working again without having to
>initialize the HD, since it has word processing software on it that I
>wouldn't be able to re-load after initializing the disc because I don't
>have a CD module.
>
>Is there something I can do to get it working again? Anything I can
>download, for instance?
>
>It's just not mounting the HD... I'm losing the will to live!
You might as well just reformat the drive, and then put a system on
it. If you had Norton, that might rescue it and leave the system and
software intact, though. I'd probably use SCSI disk mode to put the hard
drive on my desktop, and usse Disk Warriou and Norton to fix it.
Paul
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin, 1759.
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