This thread makes me recall one truly awful Friday afternoon, when I ran Norton Utilities (version 4.0) on my Max 3000 to fix some odd little problems. The program ran its course, found some problems and "fixed them."
When I attempted to restart off the hard drive, however, I got the question mark. When I rebooted off the Norton Disk again, I discovered, to my horror, that Norton had taken every file on the drive and inserted them into a series of numbered folders -- apparently at random. I never did find out what happened, and to this day I view Norton with great wariness. I'm thinking that Disk Warrior is my next purchase. Anyway -- sorry for rambling, but I thought this might be of interest. And if anyone knows what happened, I'd be very interested to know. John >At 1:27 AM -0700 10/29/04, Telcontar wrote: >> > Report: >> > 1. "The boot Blocks are damaged and will be repaired after replacing the >directory." >> >>hm, I wonder if the Mac crashed during the first boot after Explorer crashed >it? But yeah, that explanation figures :) >> >> > 2. "The System folder was blessed." (I'd never seen that in a report >till now Bill!) >> >>To be honest, I think that's bogus. Disk Warrior said the same about my drive >when it was so toasted I don't think I even had a system folder *left* any >more -- some bits of what used to be in there were all thrown in a big >rescued items folder along with most of what else was recovered from the >drive. Blessing that is about as good as trying to give a person run over >and flattened by a steamroller, some paracetamol :) >> >>Disk Warrior is probably reporting that whether it succeeds in the task or >not. Still, it did a lot better than Norton which broke the drive to begin >with (the reason being, it seems, that as it was trying to make repairs, >it was making mistakes that caused more damage and it spiralled out of >control until the directory was so destroyed only Disk Warrior could read >what was left) > > >Hi Telcontar, > >Thanks for the in-depth! >I remember you from other lowend lists when I was a mere newbie >envious of your experience. :-) > >Respectfully, >Terry > >-- >StarMax is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... > > / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ > / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ > > Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > >StarMax list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/starmax.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]> >Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/starmax%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > >Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com > Custom Communications Web site design 145 Newbury St., 3rd Floor Portland, ME 04101 (207) 771-5510 www.desktoppub.com -- StarMax is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> StarMax list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/starmax.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]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/starmax%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
