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From: anson@elrond.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: HELP!!
Message-ID: <1900@elrond.CalComp.COM>
Date: Fri, 4-Dec-87 15:01:14 EST
Article-I.D.: elrond.1900
Posted: Fri Dec  4 15:01:14 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 9-Dec-87 01:41:32 EST
References: <537@eplrx7.UUCP> <2785@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: anson@elrond.UUCP (Ed Anson)
Organization: Calcomp Display Products Division, Hudson, NH, USA
Lines: 28
Keywords: My Mac II disk is down

In article <2785@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM> scholz@ncrcae.UUCP (Carl Scholz) writes:
>In article <537@eplrx7.UUCP> lad@eplrx7.UUCP (Lawrence Dziegielewski) writes:
>>I have a major crisis here.  One of my Mac II's equipped with an Apple
>>Upon rebooting,  the Mac became stuck at the "Welcome to
>>Macintosh" banner.  Since it stayed there for more than
>>7 minutes,  I decided to push the dreaded programmer's 
>>switch.
>  Unfortunately, Lawrence, the only solution
>I've found is to reformat the drive.  I learned after the second time, and
>bought DiskFit ( a great backup utility) and now I RELIGIOUSLY backup 
>everything after each session (usually only about 3-5 minutes to backup).

Don't give up yet!  I had a similar (though not exactly the same) experience
just last night -- though I had a backup.  Still, I don't like to reformat
a disk when I don't *really* have to.  I tried Disk Express.  It found some
damage in the directory, which I eventually learned was due to my system
file getting trashed in a strange way.  Anyway, Disk Express corrected the
directory so that the disk was usable.  After restoring the system file, I
was able to boot from the hard disk.

I don't know if this will help or not in your case, but it's worth a try.



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   Ed Anson,    Calcomp Display Products Division,    Hudson NH 03051
   (603) 885-8712,      anson@elrond.CalComp.COM