IHLS400@INDYCMS.BITNET.UUCP (05/27/87)
I just received my new issue of STart today and decided to try installing CLI.ACC, OPERATOR.ACC and PAGEFLIP.ACC. After using ARCX.TTP on the ARC files, I put the ACC and associated RSC files on my hard drive and tried to reboot. Result: 2 bombs and the drive continually tries to reboot. I tried unplugging the hard drive and booting off A: successfully. I then installed the C: drive and renamed the ACC files to AC and tried rebooting off the hard drive. No good. Same result of two bombs and the drive continually tried to reboot. I unplugged the hard drive again and followed the same steps to boot off of A:, but now the hard drive shows only one file on it, AHDI.PRG. When I open the C: drive, it does indeed appear to be reading off the drive. I have a feeling my hard drive is trashed, but hopefully someone can give me a suggestion. More than that, I wanted to warn people out there lest the same thing happen to them. Although I don't guarantee that I did everything properly, I hope no one else has the same problems if I did indeed install everything right. I am now open for suggestions (as always it seems) about how to salvage the hard drive if possible without re-formatting. I do not have a current backup, although there isn't anything of great importance that I do not have a copy of on another disk with the possible exception of some intermediate edits of text and program files. Thank you for any help you may have for me. I hope none of you have the same problems and it's just my own stupidity. P.S. Please include your entire return path when writing as we tend to have a lot of trouble finding our way back, especially to UUCP. Thank you again. -Holly .............................. ............................. "You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however." -- Richard Bach, "Illusions" .............................. .............................