Weird hard drive issue with SE HDFD

[Mike Mckinnon]

I’m setting up an old Mac I pulled out of storage recently. The hard drive will 
spin up and mount, and I can even launch software installed on it, but I get 
errors if I try to write to it or even run a scan from the disk repair app. I 
was trying to install 6.0.8 to it from an external floppy drive because the 
internal one is toast. Basically anything other than opening what’s already on 
there is a big fat fail. 

Any ideas? I’m inclined to think that being 30+ years old is the main culprit 
here. 

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Re: Weird hard drive issue with SE HDFD

[Clark Martin]

Clark Martin
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> On Dec 16, 2017, at 10:40 AM, Mike Mckinnon  wrote:
> 
> I’m setting up an old Mac I pulled out of storage recently. The hard drive 
> will spin up and mount, and I can even launch software installed on it, but I 
> get errors if I try to write to it or even run a scan from the disk repair 
> app. I was trying to install 6.0.8 to it from an external floppy drive 
> because the internal one is toast. Basically anything other than opening 
> what’s already on there is a big fat fail. 
> 
> Any ideas? I’m inclined to think that being 30+ years old is the main culprit 
> here. 

That would be my thought too.

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Re: Weird hard drive issue with SE HDFD

[Aoresteen]

Don't give up so easily.  

1.  Is it the boot drive?  I am assuming that it is.

2.  I'd use a disk utility to scan the hard drive for errors.

3.  If you don't care about the data on the drive I'd re-format it and see 
what happens.

Good Luck!

On Saturday, December 16, 2017 at 4:47:21 PM UTC-5, Mike Mckinnon wrote:
>
> I’m setting up an old Mac I pulled out of storage recently. The hard drive 
> will spin up and mount, and I can even launch software installed on it, but 
> I get errors if I try to write to it or even run a scan from the disk 
> repair app. I was trying to install 6.0.8 to it from an external floppy 
> drive because the internal one is toast. Basically anything other than 
> opening what’s already on there is a big fat fail. 
>
> Any ideas? I’m inclined to think that being 30+ years old is the main 
> culprit here. 

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Re: Weird hard drive issue with SE HDFD

[Clark Martin]

You could try reinitializing the drive.  It’s possible the problems you are 
seeing are soft errors.

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> On Dec 16, 2017, at 7:51 PM, Clark Martin  wrote:
> 
> 
> Clark Martin
> A designated driver on the information Super Highway
> 
>> On Dec 16, 2017, at 10:40 AM, Mike Mckinnon > > wrote:
>> 
>> I’m setting up an old Mac I pulled out of storage recently. The hard drive 
>> will spin up and mount, and I can even launch software installed on it, but 
>> I get errors if I try to write to it or even run a scan from the disk repair 
>> app. I was trying to install 6.0.8 to it from an external floppy drive 
>> because the internal one is toast. Basically anything other than opening 
>> what’s already on there is a big fat fail. 
>> 
>> Any ideas? I’m inclined to think that being 30+ years old is the main 
>> culprit here. 
> 
> That would be my thought too.



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Re: Weird hard drive issue with SE HDFD

[Jeff Walther]

On Saturday, December 16, 2017 at 3:47:21 PM UTC-6, Mike Mckinnon wrote:
>
> I’m setting up an old Mac I pulled out of storage recently. The hard drive 
> will spin up and mount, and I can even launch software installed on it, but 
> I get errors if I try to write to it or even run a scan from the disk 
> repair app. I was trying to install 6.0.8 to it from an external floppy 
> drive because the internal one is toast. Basically anything other than 
> opening what’s already on there is a big fat fail. 
>
> Any ideas? I’m inclined to think that being 30+ years old is the main 
> culprit here. 


Did you install any jumpers recently, or since you last used it?  Perhaps 
you've installed a Write-Protect jumper?  IIRC most of the old drives had a 
jumper for WP.

Jeff Walther


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