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 dri
Clark Martin
A designated driver on the information Super Highway
> On Dec 16, 2017, at 10:40 AM, Mike Mckinnon wrote:
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> 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
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,
You could try reinitializing the drive. It’s possible the problems you are
seeing are soft errors.
Clark Martin
A designated driver on the information Super Highway
> On Dec 16, 2017, at 7:51 PM, Clark Martin wrote:
>
>
> Clark Martin
> A designated driver on the information Super Highway
>
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 th
