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c750dt
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on: June 24, 2011, 10:18
Nice place, I've already looked through the site and found some helpful stuff. Recently, I came across a PowerBook 5300c and a Performa 630CD. The Performa runs like a charm and is enjoyable to use. The PowerBook is a slug and I don't particularly like it as much; I have something of a love-hate relationship with it. Anyways, despite that, I'd love to see the thing work again. I had something go wrong after updating the OS and it suddenly froze after booting to the desktop. It now refuses to boot and so far, the only floppies that I have been able to create (on the internet, I only have Windows) don't detect the hard drive and the drive tools on them seem to be for SCSI. What am I missing? |
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Reply #1 on: June 24, 2011, 15:51
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What kind of Sytem floppies do you have? If you want to re-initialize your HDD, you will need a System Tools floppy to boot and format your drive with Drive Setup. This app was on disk 14 of the System 7.5.2 floppy collection. Google for "~gamba2" without the quotes, to find a boot disk. You should be able to inflate and write the file to disk with DiskCopy on your Performa. Maybe a Norton Utilities2 floppy could fix your HDD too. Macintoshgarden is hosting some versions of NU. The bootable "Norton HD Emergency Disk.img" might work for you. It did work for me in the past, anyway.
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c750dt
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Reply #2 on: June 25, 2011, 04:26
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I'll give that a shot as I've already tried the Disk Tools floppy from a few different versions of MacOS and the Drive setup app can't initialize a thing; it doesn't detect there's a drive installed.
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Reply #3 on: June 27, 2011, 13:59
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You could try FWB´s Harddisk Toolkit as well. If none of the utilities "sees" your HDD, there may be a problem with the drive. Can you try the drive with another computer? HDD´s tend to fail sometimes, unfortunately.
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