From: Roy A. Baril (rbsys@uclink4.berkeley.edu)
Date: Thu Oct 24 2002 - 16:49:57 PDT
John and Andy,
Take the i-book to Hardware support. Ask to talk to Mike. He is the
resident apple specialist. If the data is intact, he can save it, reformat
the disk and put the data back on. Of course this might cost you a few
measely dollars, but can you put a price on your data? Seriously, I have
had my share of macs do this and Mike has come through everytime.
Hope this helps,
roy
At 02:41 PM 10/24/2002 -0700, John Fiorillo wrote:
>MAGNet,
>
>One of our graduate students is experiencing problems with a blueberry
>iBook (see his explanation below). Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks.
>
>John
>
>>John;
>>
>>I have a couple mac-related questions for you:
>>
>>... ibook (blueberry!) recently refused to boot, coming up with
>>the Mac+flashing-question-mark icon. I ran the disk tool that came with
>>the system (Disk First Aid, I think) and found that the disk was there,
>>but could not be mounted (i.e., not recognized as a startup disk). I
>>rebooted from the system CD, but even with a clean system reboot, it was
>>still not able to mount the internal hard drive. Apple's recommended
>>solution: reformat the hard drive and reinstall the system (and of
>>course lose all your data!).
>>Before I do that, I was wondering if you had encountered this problem,
>>and if you know of a way to fix it? Apparently (according to people on
>>the web) Disk First Aid, Norton, etc. are pretty much useless for fixing
>>this error (it may possibly have to do with the system thinking a hard
>>disk has the HFS file system, when it really has the HFS+ extended file
>>system). Do you happen to have any higher-powered disk repair software
>>for Macs (OS9)?
>>
>>Thanks.
>>-Andy
>
>
>--
>
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