cuello@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (10/27/89)
Help! How does one restore a Jasmine Innerdrive 45 with Symantec Utilities for the Macintosh, if: - The Shield INIT was not in the System folder at the time of the crash; - A backup of the Shield vol.save file is in a diskette, and - The computer (SE, 1MB) was running under 6.0.4? This hard drive has been very unstable during the last week, after I installed Microsoft Excel 2.2. The first weird thing it did was to bomb as soon as I tried to run any other application after exiting Excel. (It started doing it under 6.0.3 and continued under 6.0.4 upon upgrading with the new, fancy installer). The shield INIT had to be removed from the system file while running the Comment DA, which in its latest version requires a very wacky INIT called AutoLoader. This AutoLoader seems to be incompatible with everything else, so that if it triggers a crash such as the one I experienced, one is defenseless when it comes to restoring the hard drive. I have tried to restore it with all of the strategies included in SUM (1.2), Mac Tools (7.0), and in despair tried to even reformat it with the Jasmine DriveWare program (that comes for partitioning, updating the driver, etc). But none of the programs seem to even recognize that the volume is there, somewhere in the inner sanctum of my MacJunk SE. Please, feel compassion for this kind soul. My MA thesis is gone with that crashed Jasmine. I will appreciate ANY help. It is due Nov. 6. Thanks. <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> | Federico A. CUELLO <cuello@uiuc> | "Am I not a man? Research Associate/Microcomputer Consultant | And is not man stupid? Regional Science Program/CSO Microconsulting | So yes, I am married!" University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 237-I Davenport Hall - Urbana, Il. 61801 | Zorba the Greek | <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>