On Monday, May 23, 2005, at 04:19 PM, Fluxstringer wrote:
I think OS 9 drive Setup would insist on initializing. Thus wiping
out the content.
But a try at using the installer to install just the Os may also
fail if the disk cannot be read or the remaining format can't be
latched onto.
IIRC of course.
That was my recollection, too (drive setup would toast it). Unless
you can make it just do the 'update disk driver' thing, but IIRC
that only would show if the drive were mounted at the time. With an
unmounted drive, I recall Drive Setup to be a little underfeatured
in the past.
However, using a combo of a 8.1 boot system on a CF card, and DW for
OS 9, got things going, it seems fine now. Culprit appears to be
WACom Mozilla temp file got way crosslinked, and then loss of system
folder blessed status etc somehow.
Thanks all for the help and emails;
Brian
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So rather than rebuilding the boot blocks what you did sort of jogged
the data somehow?
Glad you got it back.
A defrag ought to set it in full order again I assume.
Can you SCSI or ethernet to another Mac to back it up?
A year ago I used SCSI disk mode to get my 1400 back from some nasty behavior.
--
Adrian
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