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- From: lau@aerospace.aero.org (David Lau)
- Subject: Re: Duo HD problems: HELP
- Message-ID: <lau-060193100320@michigan.aero.org>
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- References: <lau-301292101633@michigan.aero.org> <1993Jan2.173624@lamisun.epfl.ch>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 18:04:13 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan2.173624@lamisun.epfl.ch>, pulfer@lamisun.epfl.ch
- (Jean-Michel Pulfer) wrote:
- >
- > Hi all, and happy new year !
- > I did have the same problem as David: I wanted to get rid of the
- > circa 2800KB `hole' Apple left on my PowerBook 180's 120MB HD. It
- > seems like a *bad* idea, as any unpolite shutdown/restart did
- > corrupt my HD somewhat. It never was a serious problem (this seemed
- > more like a corrupted driver/volume info block) as I never lost
- > anything.
- > The fix I used was to repartition my HD with the original setup.
- > I should have tried with a smaller `Apple_Free' partition, but I got
- > tired of reloading my files after each try.
- > Has anyone an idea about what's happening ? Is the Apple_Free
- > partition really free ? Thanks in advance for any information,
- > as I'm curious.
- >
- >
- > Jean-Michel
-
- Come to think of it. I did reformat my drive to utilize all of the HD
- instead
- of the 3 Meg of free space that Apple leaves.... Hmmmm I wonder if that
- has anything to do with my HD crashes on my Duo.... Can anyone comment on
- this?
-