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clarus
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on: January 28, 2009, 02:31
Help! I salvaged a Color Classic with System 7.1 on it. It's in great shape with Oregon Trail, After Dark, Spectre, ClarisWorks and loads of classic software. It was working great a couple of months ago, but now the HD won't mount at stratup (I get the floppy with blinking question mark). I have the Network Access Disk image which I made into a bootable floppy on my PC at work and that boots the computer just fine. However, the HD does not show up on the desktop. I think I need drive setup and disk first aid (which are not on the floppy I made). The image on this site won't boot the Color Classic. What should I do to get it running again without wiping the HD and starting over? I don't have access to an old Mac with a floppy drive... Thanks! |
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wove
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1024 MB Posts: 1363
Reply #1 on: January 28, 2009, 13:50
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Create another floppy with the disk tools you need. After you have booted with the boot floppy, drag that icon to the trash which will eject the disk, then insert the floppy with disk tools. Follow the prompts. Be aware you will do a good deal of disk swapping during this proceedure. Remember up through the Mac Plus, Macs only came with one floppy and no hard drive. As an alternative create another boot floppy. Delete the finder on the created floppy, copy your disk utility to the floppy and rename the disk utility to "Finder". The system will then boot directly to software you need to use. (That will work up with floppies up through OS8.5. OS 9 does not boot from a floppy.) If the hard drive is not even mounting, you may well have a bad hard drive. Hard drives can suffer from a number of mechanical issues over time. You can try just leaving the computer turned on for several hours. Once everything is nice and warm, you can restart and see if the hard drive comes up at this point. If you feel ambitious you can remove the hard drive and give it a gentle tap to see if that frees up the hard drive. bill
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clarus
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4 MB Posts: 4
Reply #2 on: January 28, 2009, 14:36
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Bill, thanks for the advice. I'll leave it running this morning and see what happens at lunch. I can hear the HD spin up when I turn the computer on, but then it stops and I get the flashing question mark. I did remember my old 512 and thought about that very solution of having multiple floppies that would have the system on one and disk tools on another. I have tried ejecting the Network Access boot floppy so I can insert a disk with disk tools on it, but immediately get a "please insert disk Network Tools" message. It spits out any disk that isn't that one. Maybe system 7.5.5 is too big to fit into RAM and it needs the disk? I'll keep playing with it. But thanks again for your advice! Dave
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