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Spyswitch00
New Member
86 Posts |
 Posted - 28 Apr 2003 : 20:05:41
Hello All! Long time!Well, I've been messing around with another Mac SE. However, I'm trying to re-initialize the hard disk. I want to do this because the person I got it from just had a lot of junk on it so I thought it would be best to get a clean start and defrag in the process. I'm trying to use my 6.0.8 sys disk as the start up disk so I can use it while erasing the hard drive. Does this make sense? I realize that I probably don't have the jargon down in the right order if at all. To make a long story shorter. It says that I can't unmount the hard drive because it's being used or something??? Is this the thing where you hold some keys down during start-up with the sys 6.0.8 disk in the drive or something? I hope that I've been clear (enough anyway)! Thanks!!! |
Clinton
Full Member
USA
700 Posts |
Posted - 28 Apr 2003 : 22:09:13
OK, to init the drive, you need to boot up from a floppy that contains apple HD SC setup. you cannot use apple hd sc setup that resides on the HDD, because it self destructs as it inits, and would not give you a clean init. init from a floppy, and then boot from your install floppies, and do a clean reinstall.CCC Commander
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Spyswitch00
New Member
86 Posts |
Posted - 29 Apr 2003 : 04:41:53
Hey Thanks! I tried booting with the sys 6.0.8 disk, but it kept spitting it back out as it fired up. It's: simultaneous delete, option, command, shift right? Thank you for reading!
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unmounting a drive in a Mac SE
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