Al
Terry's advice is all sound, I did most of them when I had the problem in item 2 below.
I remember having a similar problem awhile back and only three things come to mind:
1. Startup from Norton: I believe in one of its menus in Disk Doctor, is a search option for unmounted volumes - Try that.
2. I had lost a big batch of emails and other information (15,000 items I think) and after a frantic month of trying to recover them (and did recover a huge mess of them with Volume Recover. However in a last breath attempt, I went to Symantec where there was a download of a minor update which magically brought back, in its rightful place, most of the missing information. I had tried other utilities to no avail, only this update did it - a month after losing them. Of course, it was a directory problem. I'm mad at Symantec however, as my backup startup volume has the pre-magic update version of Norton and it won't check my normal startup volume, and visa versa. Symantec doesn't have that update posted any more as my version of the Utilities is old. I want to know where that update is on my normal startup disk and if I can drag it to my backup volume with Norton Utilities.
3. More drastic and only do when you've run out other options: Start up from your operating system CD and reinitialize your hard disk which, of course, wipes out everything but, of course, you have all your original application disks and last night's complete backup, so you will be in good shape.
Because of known awakening problems, I've always been shy of using the sleep mode.
If I can think of anything else, I'll write - good luck and hope someone smarter than me is reading this.
Bill
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 13:05:25 -0500 Subject: Startup Problems From: Al Diestelkamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I have a Starmax 3000/200 which has been upgraded to a G3 with a Sonnet card.
Lately I have not been able to wake it from sleep mode without restarting. Today, when I tried to restart all I get is the blinking ?. I have disconnected all the external SCSI devices.
I can start up from Norton Utilities CD but that doesn't do me any good because it still doesn't recognize my hard drive.
Any suggestions?
Al Diestelkamp Cortland, Illinois e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hi Al,
Once you are in. . . run Disk Warrior, Disk First Aid, TeckTool Pro 3, Update your driver using "Drive Setup". . . all on your "sleeping" hard drive.
The "S" key or moving your mouse should take it out of sleep mode. Once you boot from the CD. . . Go to your Control Panels and turn off sleep mode.
See if any of that moves you along.
Terry
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