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- From: andy@orchid.bdc.ubc.ca (Andrew Dwelly)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Bringing an HD back to life
- Date: 5 Jan 1993 00:29:10 GMT
- Organization: The University of British Columbia
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- We recently took delivery of our first office mac, an LC II, and I spent
- a happy week or so getting it set up to run with our existing printers and
- other PC systems.
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- Then, over the holidays it was lent out to another institution, and when
- I got back today it was not seeing the hard drive any more ! I've since
- managed to reformat and partition the HD using the disk tools supplied,
- and its clear that I should use the installer disk to recreate the systems
- folder on the HD.
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- Unfortunately when you mount the HD using the disk tools disk (thus
- bringing up the HD icon), the system will not let you eject the disk
- tools floppy so the installer floppy can be inserted to bring up the
- system software on the HD. As far as I can see, the only way to get
- rid of the disk tools disk, is to restart the mac at which point the
- HD becomes unmounted (well the installer can't see it anyway).
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- Is there any way around this problem ? Ideally I'd like to bring up my
- nice fresh reformated HD icon using the disk tools, leave it mounted
- somehow and start the install procedure. So far the only solution I've
- been able to think of is to borrow an external floppy drive for the LC II
- so I can keep the disk tools disk running as the system disk, and then,
- when the HD icon appears, use the other drive to run the installer.
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- Is this the only way ? it seems rather odd that you need 2 floppy drives
- to remake the HD. All comments welcome.
-
- Andy
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- Andrew Dwelly - Biosciences Computing Unit, UBC, Vancouver, Canada
- (604) 822-6527, andy@bcu.ubc.ca
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