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. -- -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to vintage-macs@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vintage Macs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
