I just beat up my SE 30

[Rezmason]

This thread will give you a very bad impression of me, I'm sure.

A few years ago I acquired an old SE 30. The other day I was showing it off to friends online, and I thought I'd show off and do something bold.

I edited the System suitcase in ResEdit. Then it wouldn't boot.

I plugged in an external HD that coincidentally had Disinfectant on it, which complained that the internal HD had the WDEF virus (which I'd never heard of before). I grabbed... some application, probably Apple's Drive Setup, and tried to just initialize the internal HD, which again froze the machine.

Now my SE 30 won't recognize its own internal hard disc, though it'll run from a floppy or from an external SCSI device. The Disinfectant software on the external HD I mentioned before was too recent to run properly on the SE 30, so I'm not sure what I can do with it.

I have another old Mac, an LC 475, that might help me recover the SE, but I don't want the "WDEF virus" to spread, which frankly might have happened already.

How do I fix this problem?

 

[JRL]

With that ordeal, the HD might have been dismounted by the Macintosh SE/30.

Try a Disk Tools disk (make sure to lock it!) and use Apple HD SC Setup (patched if necessary). You should be able to remount the hard drive.

 

[Rezmason]

Darn, no luck yet reinitializing. I only got the internal drive to appear once in Disk Repair– it said the drive has a problem that Disk Repair can't fix– and HD SC Setup says it's failed to initialize the disk.

How do I patch the HD Setup? Maybe I'll have better luck then.

 

[JRL]

http://www.macdrivermuseum.net/disk/Old_SCSI_HD_Utilities.sit

Use Lido (in that package, along with patched HD SC Setup) to format your hard drive.

If you need help with that package, I'll PM you a image for a Lido boot disk.