Blinking "?" on mac classic
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Name: Chris
Date: September 23, 2000 at 20:16:55 Pacific
Subject: Blinking "?" on mac classic |
Comment: Hi,
I was given an old mac classic but it wont
boot. I get the happy mac face then the
disk icon with a blinking "?". I've been
able to boot it up with a Norton
emergency disc and I used that to repair
the harddrive. I can also boot with a
Norton disk editor disk and I can see the
HD and everything on it but still get the ?.
My question is , is there a way to reformat
the drive and reinstall 7.5.3 from inside
Norton or do I need to make a 7.5.3 boot
floppy with hard drive set up. If so, how
do I go about it? Any help would be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks a million. Chris
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Response Number 1
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Name: Phyllis
Date: September 25, 2000 at 14:10:22 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)You didn't mention if you selected the hard
drive as the startup disk in the startup disk
control panel when you booted from Norton.
Sometimes that's all it is. You said you can
see the hard drive - you can also doublecheck
that the System Folder is "blessed" (a
mini-icon of a mac appears on it in icon
view). Here's a great website for old macs
you might check out:
http://lightning.prohosting.com/~
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Response Number 2
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Name: Nobotan
Date: October 3, 2000 at 11:07:26 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Hi. I'm not sure but I think that the blinking "?" means that your Mac can't find a startup disk. If you can still bootup with a Norton Disk, you should be OK. By that I mean I wouldn't think that there was major damage to your harddisk. You might want to startup with your system disk and, if you can still see the harddisk icon, backup all the files that you want to keep and just reinstall the system. Then reboot and your right back in the game. I hope I was able to help you a bit. Good Luck. <^-^>
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Response Number 3
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Name: DaveD
Date: December 20, 2000 at 02:50:53 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Hiya..Can anyone help me out with a Sad Mac with the first line saying 0000000F second line saying 00000063 i tried zapping the PRAM and everything...i looked for Boot disks on the internet,all i can find are Imiges and installers...doesnt help much when i cant boot at all..Anyone out there that can E-Mail me a Finder and a System so i can make my own boot disk on my pc? Please Help me.. :o)
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