mazlack@ernie.berkeley.edu (Lawrence J. Mazlack) (03/12/86)
Reference: Well, it happened to me: the infamous sad faced mac off of my hard disk running under MacXL. Someone a few days ago suggested a recovery procedure that involved booting off of MacTools and then doing the disk repair. Unfortunately, when I do that, I cannot get the system to recognize that there is a hard disk out there. I would appreciate (very, very much) a step by step, key stroke by key stroke, tutorial on how to recover. Alternately, I do have a wierd procedure to get to the point where it tries to build the desk top and fails. I get the messages: (a) "..disk needs minor repairs.." when I say OK, then the repair fails, resulting in (b) "Couldn't unlock the desktop file. Unlock the disk?" At this point, I cannot get it to accept anything but an "OK" which then results in the system not being able to access the hard disk. So, the question is: is there a way that I could get the system NOT to build the desktop, and at the same time leave the hard disk logically attached? Then, I could try to fix the disk. I know that MacTools will handle diskettes, but I can't seem to get it to deal with the hard disk. (My weird procedure is to boot the system off of a good hard disk, open something (MacPaint, MacTools),swap cables to connect the problem disk, then close the application. ) Larry Mazlack UUCP {tektronix,dual,sun,ihnp4,decvax}!ucbvax!ucbernie!mazlack New style mazlack@ernie.berkeley.edu ARPA | CSNET mazlack%ernie@berkeley.ARPA BITNET mazlack@ucbernie.BITNET telephone (415) 528-0496 snail CS Dept, 571 Evans, U. California, Berkeley, CA 94720