kenk@richsun.UUCP (Ken Konecki) (11/17/88)
I always hoped it would never happen to me.....
I have a basic Mac SE: 1 Meg RAM, 20 Meg internal hard disk. Yes-
terday evening I began to do a complete backup with Diskfit.
After the first floppy of the smart set was filled, the hard disk
started making a very rythmic 'kerchunk'ing noise and Diskfit was
getting -36 errors and was reporting them as I/O error/Bad Media.
Things are not looking good.
I cancelled the backup procedure, and after more rythmic ker-
chunking I was told that the finder was >poof< gone. Ok, fine.
Click on restart. More kerchunking, followed by a floppy disk
icon with a big question mark. Bad, real bad. I popped in
the system floppy and got the Mac to boot (the hard disk ker-
chunking happily away...) with one problem: the desktop shows
no hard disk. Well, things are now beyond real bad.
After the hard disk stopped its kerchunking I try running Disk
First Aid, in hopes that maybe something can be done. Nope, the
drive just ain't there as far as anyone's concerned. Rats. Okay,
I say to myself, looks like I have to reinitialize the disk. I
run the HD setup program provided on the System disk, click on
initialize and >surprise<, the software indicates a potential
hardware failure, can't initialize.
Question time: What happened?
What can I do about the problem? (and how much
will it cost? :-)
Please E-Mail responses to me.
Thanks,
-Ken K
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Ken Konecki
kenk@richsun.UUCP -or- ...!uunet!richsun!kenk -or- kenk@richp1.UUCP
"A squeegee by any other name wouldn't sound as funny"kenk@richsun.UUCP (Ken Konecki) (11/18/88)
In article <87@richsun.UUCP> kenk@richsun.UUCP (Me!!) writes: >I always hoped it would never happen to me..... > *** My story of hard disk disappearing *** > >Question time: What happened? > What can I do about the problem? (and how much > will it cost? :-) Ok, now I'm *REALLY* baffled. Last night, I turned on the Mac just to see if anything more could be done. And lo and behold, everything was ok. The hard disk showed up on the desktop, and as far as I was able to determine, no data was lost. I was able to perform the backup that first started the problem. But still the question remains: What happened?!? -- Ken Konecki kenk@richsun.UUCP -or- ...!uunet!richsun!kenk -or- kenk@richp1.UUCP "A squeegee by any other name wouldn't sound as funny"