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- From: erics@infoserv.com (Eric S. Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
- Subject: Re: startup items not working...
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 22:04:44 PDT
- Organization: Reigning Cats and Dogs
- Message-ID: <D2150056.lam3sh@erics.infoserv.com>
- Reply-To: erics@infoserv.com
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- ccw@prefect.cc.bellcore.com (wood,christopher) writes:
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- > My office-mates' macintosh (Mac IIci, 20 MB RAM, 7.0.1 with tuneup,
- > extension manager and bunches of other inits, internal and external hard
- > drives with lots of free space, Supermac 21" color monitor and board)
- > has suddenly developed a problem I've never seen before: None of the
- > startup items start up. All the rest of the inits work. We've
- > reinstalled the software from locked floppies, scanned with
- > disinfectant, deleted the startup items folder and restarted, and put
- > aliases back in the newly recreated folder. I've run out of ideas...
- >
- > The only thing odd is that he's starting up from an external HD (A
- > micronet 240 MB, with two low-level partitions.) The problem started
- > after his internal HD crashed; we reformatted, and restored from
- > backups, but now no startup items...
- >
- > Has this happened to anyone before? How did you fix it?
-
- Well, this happened to me when I first upgraded to System 7.0.1. It
- turned out that one of the floppies I used in the install had disk
- corruption. When I installed with a good set of disks the problem went
- away.
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- Eric Smith
- erics@infoserv.com
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