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Title: Could be the end of the road for me and OSv9.1
Post by: neokm on December 17, 2006, 05:55:23 PM

I've always been behind the curve on this site trying to keep up  - - - always checked out problems of others - and subsequent solutions to them - - - but I'm still still stuck in a grove with OS9.1 and my old box of goodies that worked until about 2- months ago.

I've been on broad-band for about a year now and still running on OSv9.1 - everything was fine.  Suddenly, everything fell apart apart about amonth ago.
I suspected a bum cable modem at first - but this master hard drive works fine - just limited as to what I can do.

I've been operating on my master hard drive ever since the crash - trying to figure out what happened (beyind obsolesence) - my system hard drive will not boot in the startup mode.  Tried the  Apple>option>P>R to reset parameter ram - does not woprk . . .anyone have any idea how I can regain my running hard dirve as a start-up disk?  I tried replacing my Start-up-disk file and preference file to no avail.

I have reformated my HD and selected the long-count of O's before I laid down all new programs - my Utilities Files claim that my HD checks out OK.  So how do I make it start-up again???

Thanks in advance,

Mike


Please don't anyone suggest that Santa Claus gets me out of this with a new one.

Title: Could be the end of the road for me and OSv9.1
Post by: Paddy on December 17, 2006, 07:22:14 PM

Mike, did you reinstall the OS? And it still won't start up? Do you have Diskwarrior or TechTools?

I'm assuming that you haven't actually done anything to the drive jumpers?

It could be that the drive is going south...

Title: Could be the end of the road for me and OSv9.1
Post by: kbeartx on December 17, 2006, 10:04:08 PM

QUOTE(neokm @ Dec 17 2006, 05:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

this master hard drive works fine - just limited as to what I can do.

I've been operating on my master hard drive ever since the crash - trying to figure out what happened (beyind obsolesence) - my system hard drive will not boot in the startup mode.

I'm confused by your references to a 'Master hard drive' and a 'system hard drive' - are they physically different drives, or partitions on the same drive?  

You say you can boot, but not to the drive you want, yes?  It could be that the system on the non-booting drive has gotten damaged and needs to be clean-installed [or drag-copied from the booting drive].  

Can you boot to a system CD?

Title: Could be the end of the road for me and OSv9.1
Post by: Gregg on December 18, 2006, 07:43:21 AM

Wish I had a good excuse...