Re: My GS can't see my HD Help!

[CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Fri, 29 Dec 2000 15:05:50 GMT, donalmie@iol.ie (Donal P. Leader)
wrote:

>I am using an Apple IIGS with a hard disk. Sometime ago I 'lost' the hard
>disk. The GS no longer sees it. If I try booting from the HD, it comes up
>with the message that a bootable disk cannot be found.
>
>I have tried booting with a GS boot disk. This works fine but the SCSI.HD
>driver is corrupted on this disk. 
>
>I am able to boot up using a Prodos 8 disk. This 'sees' the HD and all the
>files. I am even able to run any application on the HD provided it is a
>Prodos 8 disk.
>
>I have tried everthing I know. Is there anything I can download out there
>using ftp that would allow me to address the GS 'blindness' where my HD is
>concerned.

There are a few possibilities.  The boot blocks on your hard drive may
have been wiped out.  There used to be a virus for the IIgs that did
this.  If you have a block copying program such as Block Warden from
the ProSel disks, you could try copying blocks 0 and 1 from a working
boot floppy to blocks 0 and 1 respectively on the hard drive and try
rebooting.

If that doesn't work, you could use an 8 bit file copying program to
copy the SCSIHD.Driver from your hard drive to the floppy you have
with the corrupted one on it to be able to boot into GS/OS and see if
you can see the hard drive then.  If you can, I would suggest backing
up the important stuff and reformatting the hard drive and install
everything again from scratch.

At any rate, I'd try the block 0 and 1 copy first to see if that is
all that is wrong.  Oh, and if that does fix it, you might want to run
a virus checker on that drive too to make sure that the virus that
wipes out boot blocks is not on your system.