You could try reinitializing the drive. It’s possible the problems you are seeing are soft errors.
Clark Martin A designated driver on the information Super Highway > On Dec 16, 2017, at 7:51 PM, Clark Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Clark Martin > A designated driver on the information Super Highway > >> On Dec 16, 2017, at 10:40 AM, Mike Mckinnon <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> I’m setting up an old Mac I pulled out of storage recently. The hard drive >> will spin up and mount, and I can even launch software installed on it, but >> I get errors if I try to write to it or even run a scan from the disk repair >> app. I was trying to install 6.0.8 to it from an external floppy drive >> because the internal one is toast. Basically anything other than opening >> what’s already on there is a big fat fail. >> >> Any ideas? I’m inclined to think that being 30+ years old is the main >> culprit here. > > That would be my thought too. -- -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vintage Macs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
