Bob Conway wrote: >Yikes! Last night I was testing a REALbasic program I've been developing on my >PowerBase 180 (tower). This computer has a 2 Gb IDE internal HD, internal SCSI >CD-ROM drive, and 72 Mb RAM. Because the program had locked the machine up >pretty tightly (an endless loop in the program being the most likely >culprit), I >did the usual 3 finger salute to restart. This has worked okay several hundred >times before, but last night the PB180 would not boot back up. I get the gray >screen and see the smiling Mac icon in the middle, I can hear the hard disk >making its usual set of clickety chunkety noises, but then eventually (after >about a minute) all falls silent and I've still got nothin' but Smiley Mac >sitting there grinning at me. >
The few times I found myself in the same situation I boot from a Norton Utilities CD (assuming Filesaver had previously updated the disk's directory) and turn to Volume Recover, trying to "show missing disk" or "mount custom disk." If the volume mounts you're in luck. Also mounting an external SCSI drive and booting from it seems to aid the internal drive into spinning free. Just hope the R/W heads haven't crashed against the platter. Charlie -- Power Computing is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Power Computing list info: <http://lowendmac.com/power/list.html> --> 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]> List archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
