NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #19/NN_1992_19.iso/spool/comp/sys/mac/system/11568

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From: [e-mail] (Bradley)
Subject: Hard Disk Woes
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Summary: Hard Disk on the Blink, SUM not helping.
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Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 07:43:57 GMT
Keywords: Hard Disk, SUM
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My hard disk has developed serious problems...
I have a Plus with 4MB RAM, 84M partitioned hardisk running system 7.
First I have been running Norton 2.0 fairly faithfully (twice per week)
Yesterday I got a volume info block error that it found every time it ran
but always claimed that it fixed it.  The program always crashed during
volume optimization.  So I pulled out an old version of SUM II and managed
to get most of the disk optimized, and completely unfragment it.  It also
crashed.  None of the utility programs that I dragged out would lock out
those bad sectors or move the files (if there were any there off them.
(I have my doubts because both Norton and SUM said that all the files were OK)

Now I have a partition with all my applications on it that is
really bizarre...  First I notice that all the icons are generic, and
rebuilding the desktop does not help the situation.  Then none of the
applications will launch claiming that there is not enough memory, that
the application is set to run under 0k, error -50 occurred...  Frankly,
I'm baffled.  I need a solution because like most of you Mac users, my
mac is my livelihood.  Any ideas or input over these newsgroups or through mail
would be gratefully received.  I will post the solution as soon as I discover
it.
        Bradley
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