ddaniel@lindy.Stanford.EDU (D. Daniel Sternbergh) (03/13/91)
Forgive the cross-post, please, but I think there are two distinct but related questions here. I was using a hypercard stack on my IIcx running 6.0.5. The stack was a 1.2.x, converted with my 2.0. I was in a "library" card, which opens other stacks, clicked on one of the buttons for a stack I didn't have. It gave me an Open dialog box asking me to find the stack. I clicked on something (not the stack it was supposed to be looking for) and it died. Now, whenever I boot the machine, it gets as far as mounting the hard drive and the disk access light lights up, but there's no activity from the disk and the disk never mounts. I can't boot from a floppy, because it does the same thing when it tries then to mount the hard disk. I even tried booting from the SUM disk, with the SUM application as the start-up application, hoping that if the Finder never started, the hard disk wouldn't try to mount until I'd gotten the Recovery application running, but no luck. First question: I've exhausted my repertoire. Does anyone have any suggestions for how to go about recovering this disk? Does anyone have any idea what could cause something like this -- and more importantly, what to do now to fix it? Has the disk gone bad and the whole Hypercard thing was an unfortunate coincidence? Could Hypercard really do such a thing? Is this a known bug in 2.0, and I should've had the newer version? Second question: Is there some way that Hypercard did this? Is there some way to avoid this happening? Many thanks, == Daniel == --------------------------- D. Daniel Sternbergh ddaniel@lindy.stanford.edu