>From: Jim Raper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Blinking ? on disk
>
>Hello, y'all,
>
>Early season question for the list. I'm the person with the Mac lab of
>LCII's, 575's, and 580's. When the teacher whose room houses the lab
>went in a few days prior to the opening of school, she and a student
>turned a few (6-8) of the Macs on. All came up with the disk icon with
>the blinking ?. All but one that is. The lone LCII came up fine. I have
>7.5.5 on all.
>
>I have not gone in to do anything about this yet. Just wondered if
>anyone wants to suggest anything to look for when I do start trying my
>magic.
>
>She did power down and reboot a couple of machines but the blinking disk
>? icon came up again.
>If I remember correctly, that icon means "Can't find a usable system
>disk".
>
>I have access to Norton Utilities.
>
>The lab was running quite well with just a few printing problems when we
>shut down in the spring for end-of-school.
>
>Jim
Try starting up from an external volume like a CD or a ZIP and re-bless
the System folder in the machines in question before going into deeper,
time-consuming stuff. Just remove the Finder and System files from the
System folder and then put them back in. Then restart from the machine. I
have found this to work quite often when any of the 30 odd LC III's
w/7.5.5 I have running in an elementary school lab do this ? thing. I
have no idea why or how this problem arises though.
Bob F
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