grx1042@uoft02.utoledo.edu (Steve Snodgrass) (06/12/91)
OK, two things here:
1. Hard drive formatting/partitioning:
We have a stock Mac SE/30 with 4 Megs of RAM and an 80 Meg HD in our
office. For some strange reason, when I use the Apple HD SC setup program
(under 6.0.7 or 7.0) it won't let me use the last 3 Megs or so of the hard
drive - I can't make the main partition any bigger than about 78 Megs. This is
the list of partitions it gives me:
Partition Map 31.5 K
Mac Driver 16 K
Kato's World 78135 K
Free Space 3846 K
If I delete our main partition (Kato's World) it absolutely refuses to let
me create a bigger partition to use that last 3846 K. Why?? This is annoying;
there's space sitting there on the drive not doing anything. It won't let me
make the space into another Mac partition either. Suggestions??
2. System 7 fun:
After installing the wonderful "Rock Solid" System 7, I had two incidents,
the second of which pretty much completely trashed the drive and made me
temporarily switch back to 6.0.7. First, for some reason (I have no idea what
started it) my icons suddenly began to switch around, or turn into garbage.
Like our copy of Z-Term had somehow gotten the icon from Disinfectant. And my
Word icon turned to garbage, along with some others. Rebuilding the desktop
seemed to solve this problem.
However, the following day I was doing some things. I'm still confused
about exactly what happened, but I was just moving around some files when I
suddenly realized that it had somehow put two copies of the same file in the
System folder - which should be impossible! I closed the System folder,
reopened it, and the only thing that showed up was the Extensions folder.
Becoming annoyed, I restarted the Mac to try to cure the problem. Wrong. It
didn't restart. Booting off floppy, I discovered that EVERYTHING in the System
folder had completely disappeared - except that the hard drive still thought
that exactly the same amount of space was used on it as before this had
happened. Rebuilding the desktop didn't help at all. I had to reformat the HD
to cure this.
Rock Solid? Yeah, right. I hope we'll be seeing 7.0.1 soon.
Any help with the hard drive problem is appreciated, and any advice about these
strange Sys 7 occurences is welcome.
Thanks...
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