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- From: jmunkki@vipunen.hut.fi (Juri Munkki)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
- Subject: Re: System 7.1 Bug, PB 180 Bug or Bad HD?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.214312.22562@nntp.hut.fi>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 21:43:12 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan7.154059.4689@tdb.uu.se> Mats.Bredell@udac.uu.se writes:
- >Eric Goodman (ericg@hum.ucsc.edu) wrote:
- >: I've got a PowerBook 180 4/120 (Finally!) and am having an annoying if
- >: not fatal problem with the hard drive. I repartitioned the hard drive to
- >: reclaim the hidden space, then re-installed Sys 7.1 from the installer
- >: disks, in case that's important. The problem is that whenever I have a
- >: crash that requires a restart the internal drive is corrupted.
- >
- >Did you reformat your hard drive after doing the repartition? I think this
- >is neccesary.
-
- Reformatting gives you an empty disk, which you can then partition. The
- default partitioning leaves the Apple Free partition.
-
- Repartitioning always forces the volume to be initialized before it can
- be used. I guess you were thinking about this.
-
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