[MAGNet] Re: mac questions

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From: John Fiorillo (fiorillo@spectacle.berkeley.edu)
Date: Thu Oct 24 2002 - 14:41:52 PDT

MAGNet,

One of our graduate students is experiencing problems with a
blueberry iBook (see his explanation below). Any advice would be
greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

John

>John;
>
>I have a couple mac-related questions for you:
>
>... ibook (blueberry!) recently refused to boot, coming up with
>the Mac+flashing-question-mark icon. I ran the disk tool that came with
>the system (Disk First Aid, I think) and found that the disk was there,
>but could not be mounted (i.e., not recognized as a startup disk). I
>rebooted from the system CD, but even with a clean system reboot, it was
>still not able to mount the internal hard drive. Apple's recommended
>solution: reformat the hard drive and reinstall the system (and of
>course lose all your data!).
>
>Before I do that, I was wondering if you had encountered this problem,
>and if you know of a way to fix it? Apparently (according to people on
>the web) Disk First Aid, Norton, etc. are pretty much useless for fixing
>this error (it may possibly have to do with the system thinking a hard
>disk has the HFS file system, when it really has the HFS+ extended file
>system). Do you happen to have any higher-powered disk repair software
>for Macs (OS9)?
>
>Thanks.
>-Andy 

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