[WinMac] RE: Flashing Question Mark

Kimmey, Dennis(DKIMMEY[at]IGC.com)
Tue, 8 Jun 1999 07:56:55 -0400

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>Have you tried running Norton Utils on the drive. When you boot from your
>CD, when the volume asks to be initialized, say no, and try to get it to
>mount with Speed disk. If you can get it mounted, you can probably run
>speed
>disk or at least recover files.
>Good Luck
>begum

I happened to have a Norton 3.5 CD, which I loaded onto an external hard
drive containing a universal install of Mac OS 8.1 (so I can use it to boot
040, as well as PowerMacs), then patched Disk Doctor to v3.5.2. Booting from
the external drive still displayed the "the disk is unreadable, do you want
to initialize it?" message. I hit cancel (of course), Only the external
drive appeared on the Desktop. I launched Disk Doctor, which did show the
missing hard drive, then found & fixed a slew of problems. As to what caused
it, "Warn about improper shutdown" was checked, and I'm almost certain Drive
Setup v1.6.2 was applied prior to the 8.5.1 update. I did notice Virex was
at version 5.8.1 and remembered problems were reported in this list a while
back when copying to NT Servers, so I upgraded Virex to 5.9.1.

Thanks for everyone's suggestions!
- Dennis

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