Hello Everyone,
I have a Macintosh SE FDHD with a 40MB hard drive transplanted from a dead SE/30. The original 20MB hard drive worked well until it died on me this afternoon.
After the swap the drive only boots if I turn the computer off and a few seconds later on again, without letting the hard drive spin down completely. If I just turn the computer on cold I get the familiar disk question mark icon. If I then boot 6.0.8 from the floppy the hard drive is not visible to the Finder but I can still format it using the system hard drive tool, which then refuses to initialise it!
I tried reformatting and reloading the 6.0.8 (after doing the off and immediately on thing), it didn't do any difference, the hard drive is still not visible after a cold boot.
Have anyone got any suggestions? I tried googling the symptoms but could't get anything similar.
Many thanks
domleg
I have a Macintosh SE FDHD with a 40MB hard drive transplanted from a dead SE/30. The original 20MB hard drive worked well until it died on me this afternoon.
After the swap the drive only boots if I turn the computer off and a few seconds later on again, without letting the hard drive spin down completely. If I just turn the computer on cold I get the familiar disk question mark icon. If I then boot 6.0.8 from the floppy the hard drive is not visible to the Finder but I can still format it using the system hard drive tool, which then refuses to initialise it!
I tried reformatting and reloading the 6.0.8 (after doing the off and immediately on thing), it didn't do any difference, the hard drive is still not visible after a cold boot.
Have anyone got any suggestions? I tried googling the symptoms but could't get anything similar.
Many thanks
domleg