Neil Pollack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I installed a new hard drive in my system and used the system restore disks to be finally able to boot my Mac again. Now, I still can't mount my original hard drive. It was formatted with Apple Drive Set-up, but it doesn't show up on my desktop. I tried to use the Hard Disk SpeeedTools to mount it but nothing happens. Does anybody have any suggestions?
I ran into a similar situation with my son's S900 last Oct and at Xmas time (He's at college, so he uses it daily). In his case, he has three HDs (2 [30GB] IDE - running off a Acard ATA66 PCI card and 1 [2GB] SCSI) with OS 9.1 on each of the 3 HDs (we use multiple partitions on all our HDs). Anyways, in both situations, his main boot partition suddenly came up with the flashing ? mark, then booted off the SCSI HD. We ran Diskwarrior, TT Pro and Norton and NONE of the three saw the missing partition. So, since he still had two good bootable partitions, I told him to just keep using the machine off the second IDE partition. Here's the interesting part - within 10 days, BOTH times, the second IDE boot partition came down with the SAME problem! We ran Diskwarrior, TT Pro and Norton and, again, NONE of the three saw the missing partition. So, the first time (in Oct), I erased both of the bad partitions and reinstalled OS 9.1 on both (from a back-up disk image). As you already know, the problem returned at Xmas. So, this time, I erased both of the bad partitions and did a clean-system install of OS 9.1 on each of the partitions. He has had no problems to date. Unfortunately, I have not been able to determine what caused these problems. I have 2 S900s and a PM9600 and have had them torn down to bare bones too many times recovering from "disasters" (I'm a perpetual tinkerer). This is the first time I've ever seen a bootable partition "disappear" (other than a hard drive failure) and not be recoverable by Disk Warrior (4 times no less). The only consolation I have is that I know what to do the next time it happens. BTW, I recommend making a Disk Image of your operating system (pre-OS X) and keep it for these types of disasters - much quicker recovery times. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | SPECIAL SM LIST PRICES - 24x Bootable SCSI CDROM $39.99, Umax Processors $19.99 PowerSupplies from C500/C600 $49.99 J700/S900 $79.99 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> 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/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
