ephraim@wang.UUCP (pri=8 Ephraim Vishniac x76659 ms1459) (12/03/86)
In Delphi digest volume 2, number 62, SYNTHONY bemoans his floppy-disk startup problems. Because of the mentions of contagion and of Multiplan, I think the problem lies in the boot blocks. In prehistoric times, the boot blocks were incompatible with memory over 512K. The boot blocks are rewritten whenever the system file is copied to a disk, so that updating the system normally updates your boot sectors. BUT: If the system wasn't updated by dragging in the finder, this doesn't happen. Why Multiplan? It's the only piece of Mac software I ever bought that came with Finder 1.0! Microsoft doesn't update things until they're good and ready. Fix: Drag the system from a working disk to a non-working and it will spring to life. Or, re-write your boot blocks with FEdit.