Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site hou5a.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!ariel!hou5f!hou5g!hou5h!hou5a!ihw From: ihw@hou5a.UUCP (I Walkenfeld) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Bad Mac disk: what to do? Message-ID: <642@hou5a.UUCP> Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 16:26:32 EST Article-I.D.: hou5a.642 Posted: Wed Jan 16 16:26:32 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 17-Jan-85 14:01:48 EST Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 22 [...] What does (can) one do about bad Mac disks? One particular disk always gets the message "This is not a Macintosh disk" (not "unreadable"), and when I OK initialization, the Mac does a litlle something and then spits it out with the message "Initialization failed." Is this a hardware failure, tracking failure, or what? I'm not hard up for the disk, but I'd like to salvage it if possible. (I think I may have tried to initialize it for the first time with a system that I had been tinkering with - might this have done something to the disk?) Thanks for any help (or condolence). Irwin Walkenfeld AT&T Information Systems Holmdel, NJ ...!hou5a!ihw