Re: screwed up hard disk, maybe crash???

[schefflr@news.msus.edu (Bill Scheffler)]

Elizabeth Lucero (blinky@northcoast.com) wrote:
: help if you can, whenever i boot my gs now, i get defaulted to the 
: "system6.0 program Launcher" and it makes some strange noises when 
: loading anything from the system folder. like it's a broken record stuck 
: somewhere, i'm hoping it's not permanent, but who knows, if at all 
: possible i would like to avoid formatting/buying a new hard disk, did it 
: crash or is it something else? btw, it's a 40 meg AE vulcan partitioned 
: into 4 parts, 2 of which don't show up whenever i'm asked for volumes/at 
: finder now, they did before. i've got like 5-8 free megs, so it's not 
: entirely filled, my sytem folder was quite large, mostly DA's and INITS, 
: thanx for any help before i initialize the whole thing.

: Sealth

	Did you try shift booting to prevent all those Inits and things 
from loading.  Perhaps one of them is causing a system conflict, although 
the description of the problem kinda indicates that it could be something 
worse.  Before reformatting, I recommend doing:

	(1) A shift-boot.

		If it then works:
	
	(2) Remove any non-apple inits, DA's, ect. and add them one by 
one until you find the culprit.

	BTW, did you add anything to your System Folder lately?  If you 
did, that could be the problem (the thing you added).

	Hope this helps.

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