Re: [q] centris not booting up

[Brennan Cleveland]

Justin,
Very litterally... put it in the freezer.  I think the contraction 
caused by the cold can fix come issues of older drives, like maybe the 
read/write head has crashed onto the disk platter or something.

Brennan
Justin Zaza wrote:
Hi, I know very little...
How would I go about "freezing it"?
Thank you very much for your input, and P.S. I do have
files in it that I absolutely need!
Justin
--- Chuck Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

These old hard drives do go bad, often! If you have
nothing to special on
the hard drive, just replace it with a known good
similar drive. If you have
files you absolutely need, I understand you can
often revive a dead hard
drive for a small amount of time by freezing it. One
way or the other, you
need a different, known good hard drive. Good luck!
Chuck
On 1/24/05 8:16 AM, "Justin Zaza"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
   

Hello, I have a Mac Centris 610, which has been
working perfectly until recently, and out of
     

nowhere.
   

It stopped booting up. What specifically happens
     

is,
   

during boot-up, all of a sudden the hard drive
     

stops,
   

as though shutting down, and the "mac face" in the
center of the screen turns into a flashing
     

questions
   

mark.
I have the 7 system disks, and when I put the 1st
     

one
   

in, it loads it, says "Welcome to Macintosh" and
     

then
   

"Welcome to System 7.5
Your Macintosh needs certain software to start up
     

in
   

System 7.5"
etc. moving right along, I click "continue", and
then...
"System 7.5 Installation
The Installer cannot update the selected disk
     

named
   

"Install Disk 1.
Please click Switch Disk to choose a different
     

disk."
   

And under "Destination Disk" it shows "Install
     

Disk 1"
   

and the "Switch Disk" option is faded, meaning I
cannot click it! So is the "Install" option.
I have concluded that the big problem here is that
     

The
   

Centris has failed to acknowledge the existence of
     

the
   

hard drive.
Any help would be tremendously appreciated!
Justin
     

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