RedJacketPress
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I've been tinkering with and restoring a Mac SE (with two Floppy Drives and a 30MB Hard Drive) -- I got to the point where I wanted to erase the Hard Drive and reinstall (not my data, and the computer will eventually be offered for sale), but I have been unable to format the drive!
I've tried several different utilities -- sometimes I'll get an error (usually during an attempt to verify), sometimes I'll get no error at all, and it's as though the process has successfully completed. Sometimes the drive will be unmounted and I won't be able to get it back. But once I restart -- there it is, data and all!
I've also tried manually moving files off to the Trash -- that isn't working, either (can't empty the trash!), and I can't even save any preferences that might want to write to the Hard Drive.
It seems obvious I can read from (and even boot from!) the Hard Drive, but I can't write to it. Do these Hard Drives have separate Read and Write Heads?
I've tried several different utilities -- sometimes I'll get an error (usually during an attempt to verify), sometimes I'll get no error at all, and it's as though the process has successfully completed. Sometimes the drive will be unmounted and I won't be able to get it back. But once I restart -- there it is, data and all!
I've also tried manually moving files off to the Trash -- that isn't working, either (can't empty the trash!), and I can't even save any preferences that might want to write to the Hard Drive.
It seems obvious I can read from (and even boot from!) the Hard Drive, but I can't write to it. Do these Hard Drives have separate Read and Write Heads?