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Complete Hard Drive Erase
Name: P. Tombaugh Date: May 28, 2000 at 17:33:03 Pacific
Comment:
I want to reinstall everything from scratch on an LCIII. I have forgotten the command sequence to do that. Also, will System 7.5 run okay onthe LCIII. Presently using 7.1 I'm fixing up an e-mailing system on the old Mac for my mother-in law! Thanks.
Name: fieraci Date: May 29, 2000 at 07:00:44 Pacific
Reply:
The 'command sequence' as you put it, does not exist. You need to use the installer floppies and re-initialize the hard drive using the 'drive setup' utility that's on the first installer floppy. Then re-install the O/S as usual. I would stick with 7.1. It's a good, efficient O/S for your low mhz, hardware deficient LCIII. You probably don;t have enough ram to support a higher O/S, and for word processing and e-mail you can keep the O/S as light as possible because you only need enough resources to dial in and run a browser (try Eudora or Outlook Express, as they don't have the additional weight of a browser tacked on to them).
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Response Number 2
Name: ALEXANDER PLA Date: June 2, 2000 at 20:28:03 Pacific
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I HAD MAC 8.5 IN MY HARD DRIVE THEN I BOUGHT MAC OS9 BUT IT DIDNT TOTAL ERASE THE HARD DRIVE THE ONLY THING IT ERASE WAS JUST THE DRIVERS IT SEEMS THAT THE OS9 WENT OVER THE 8.5 BUT DID NOT ERASE IT
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Response Number 3
Name: ALEXANDER Date: June 2, 2000 at 20:44:29 Pacific
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I TRIED MANY TIMES TO GET RID OF THE 8.5 VERSION I INTIALIZE AND INTIALIZE BUT ITS STILL THERE I JUST WANT ONLY MAC OS9 BUY ITSELF THEY SAID I WILL HAVE SOME PROBLEMS GOING OVER 8.5 NOT ONLY THAT IT TAKES UP HARD DRIVE MEMORY
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Response Number 4
Name: Matt Date: June 13, 2000 at 11:51:32 Pacific
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That is because MAC OS doesn't replace every file in the old OS with the new one. I have seen MAC that came with 7.1 and now are 9.0.4 and still have some files from 7.6. It's not a big deal.
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