William Katz wrote: > Jerry <SNIPawanderin@yahosnipo.ca> wrote: >> Michael J. Mahon wrote: >> >>> William Katz wrote: >>>> So I decided to turn on my Apple //e computer two days ago, after having >>>> it sit on my desk for about ~2 years. >>>> Everything seems to work except one part... my Focus Drive //e!! :( >>>> >>>> I turn on the //e, and for the first one or two seconds, it sounds like >>>> the Focus Drive will boot up (I can hear the hard drive whirring), but >>>> then the computer just sits there with the 'Apple //e' title on the >>>> screen. >> [...] >> >>>> I have also *not* tried to put the hard >>>> drive in an ibm computer and see if any disk checking utilities would fix >>>> it? >>> That wouldn't help, since PC utilities only "fix" disks with PC >>> formatting. It would be a way to do a low-level format, but that >>> is almost certainly not the problem. >> If you buy the SpinRite program from Steve Gibson (http://grc.com/), it can >> fix a somewhat damaged hard drive. It runs on a PC, but does not care what >> the high-level filesystem information is, as it talks to the drive >> controller and does its work that way. I have used this software to repair >> drives that seemed completely gone and was delighted to have the data back. >> >> Jerry > > Thanks guys for your replies. I tried re-seating the card in slot 7, as > well as re-seating the hard drive itself on the Focus Card. > I also tried getting Prosel to fix it. > > So far nothing worked yet. > > I plan on trying SpinRite 6.0 on the hard drive, but I have to get a 2 > 1/2" to 3 1/2" ide hard drive converter in order to connect it to one of > my desktop computers. It seems like ebay has hundreds of them I can get. > > Also, does anyone know if Alltech (Computer Circulation Center) still > sells these? I actually bought the Focus Drive //e from them back in July > of 2001. Maybe I can call them for support? > > Anyway, if SpinRite does not fix the drive, I might 'fdisk' it to blank > out any partition information on it. If I fdisk the drive, and put it > back in my //e, will I be able to format it okay?? > If I remember, I think ProDOS 8 supports up to 32MB per 'partition' and I > had 5 or 6 partitions on the drive (s7,d1 s7,d2 s1,d1 s1,d2 s4,d1 and > s4,d2 I think were the partitions) > I assume ShrinkIt, or Filer, or any of the ProDOS utility programs will be > able to format it just fine? > I believe to partition it you need to be running a IIGS. At least according to my Manual. -- V/R Mark Frischknecht si vis pacem, para bellum http://www.appleiiguy.net Apple ][ Forever!
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