On Tuesday, January 6, 2004, at 01:26 PM, Darren wrote:
I must ask what is the wrong version of 7.6.1, I mean if it ran this system before it can't be a ppc version so what other wrong version of 7.6.1 can it be?
I wrote that before Vanessa revealed that the OS 7.6.1 installation "was done over 4 years ago and the machine has run flawlessly up to now." :-)
Older OS versions would either let you do an "easy instal" or customize. If you choose customize you get a list a Macs that you could select from. That leads me to believe that different code is loaded for different Macs. No?
The best way to format a mac drive is with a pc and it doesn't take forever and a day to do, if you have access to a pc with a scsi card then nuke the drive completely, test it with real formatting tools and the initalize on the mac.
Fascinating! How does a PC format differ from an Apple one? What tools would you use on a PC? Could you bring it down a level and be more specific than "nuke the drive", so we can learn something?
John
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