Macintosh XL Help Needed

[jraust]

Wow, thank you for this information. If I can't get this hard drive to work, can I use a scsi card? or something else?

 

[Runklebump]

jraust - go solid state with an X/profile:

http://sigmasevensystems.com/xprofile

 

[Denus]

Denus,

Is that a Miniscribe HDD? Does it suffer from the common 'stiction' problem?

I have one that works but the stiction renders it useless.

It was a kind of metallic dust type of dirt.

I managed to clean the HD and the surface of the motor (which you can see on the pic...), and it's now fully operational.

There's a garage database on the HD with many license numbers, details regarding car repairs etc... from 1991 till 1994. 

That explains the state of the SE when I got it...

 

[bigmessowires]

Have you tried using BLU (Basic Lisa Utilities) to perform a low-level format of the hard drive? Try that, then rerun the MacWorks installer.