cp26+@andrew.cmu.edu (Christopher Thomas Parker) (10/26/90)
Help!?!???!!!! My computer seems to be overlooking the obvious. I've got an SE/30 with 5 megs RAM, 100 meg internal hard drive, 60 meg external hard drive, a SuperMac ColorCard SE/30 driving a 13" Apple monochrome screen. I was trying to help a friend of mine use this computer, when in order to resolve what I thought was an INIT conflict I took the DeskPict INIT out of my System Folder. Whoops. Apparently, I shouldn't have done that. Now, whenever I try to boot the machine, it won't boot off either of the hard drives >despite the fact that there are valid System Folders on both drives!< Wait. It gets better. If I boot the system off the internal floppy, neither hard drive gets mounted on the desktop. I have to use the individual companies' utilities (namely Rodime's and CMS') in order to mount them. The disks mount fine and the data on them is intact, it's just that neither of them will boot. After backing up both drives, and then reinstalling the system software fresh from my original disks...IT STILL DOESN'T WORK!! Needless to say, I'm a little annoyed. Anyone out there with some brilliant ideas? I'd really rather not have to truck it into CMUs repair store. Help? - Chris cp26@andrew.cmu.edu "I didn't do it... You didn't see me do it... You can't prove it."
ml27192@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (10/27/90)
/* ---------- "Hard drive stupidity" ---------- */ Wait. It gets better. If I boot the system off the internal floppy, neither hard drive gets mounted on the desktop. I have to use the individual companies' utilities (namely Rodime's and CMS') in order to mount them. The disks mount fine and the data on them is intact, it's just that neither of them will boot. Do either of the company's utilities have 'write driver' commands? Or... Is the Control Panel's Startup Device set to something wierd? I've heard that if it gets corrupted then no drive will boot. Mark Lanett
cp26+@andrew.cmu.edu (Christopher Thomas Parker) (10/28/90)
Thanks to everyone who replied to my earlier message. It was a big help and getting a bunch of email was great too. It turns out that zapping the PRAM was the appropriate thing to do. Thanks again, - Chris cp26@andrew.cmu.edu "I didn't do it... You didn't see me do it... You can't prove it."