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- From: lau@aero.org (David D. Lau)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Warning: Duo's incompatible with Before Dark
- Date: 14 Dec 1992 20:51:41 GMT
- Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
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- Hi,
- Hopefully this post will save someone ALOT of headaches that I had
- to go through with my Powerbook Duo.
-
- My experience concerns the hard disk crashing all the time whenever I
- was for to do a hard shutdown (system freezes or bombs). The Disk Tools
- floppy would respond with "This disk is damaged. Do you want to Initialize?"
- The cuplrit was Bafore Dark. This nifty sharware utility changes the
- mundane desktip background to neat patterns. Unfortunately whatever it
- does to the system file or desktop is not entirely compatible with System7.1
- or the Duo. I am not sure about other Macs running system 7.1. Maybe someone
- can check this out.
-
- Evidently the Volume Information Block gets corrupted. It requires MacTools2.0
- to repair otherwise your only solution is to reformat. This is a pain because
- NO ONE has System 7.1 Emergency Utility disks out there. Creating your
- own is close to impossible. A minimum system 7.1 floppy takes up about
- 1.2 Meg of space. Neither MacTools or Norton can fit.
- I ended up borrowing an external HD, buying the special Powerbook
- SCSI cable, installing a bootable system 7.1 and running MacTools off that.
- A major pain !!! I eventually figured it out and trashed Before Dark
- lest I forget and install it again.
-
- Hopefully this will save some one from wasting countless hours trying to
- recover their hard drive.
-
- David
- lau@aerospace.aero.org
-