Macintosh Classic damaged hard drive

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Macintosh Classic damaged hard drive

My Macintosh Classic has no operating system. When I attemped to install system 7.0, the install failed and told me to delete the system file on the Hard Drive. So I deleted the system file using original utilities diskettes, like it asked, then reinitialized the HD. Now it keeps saying that "The disk is damaged: Do you want to initialize it?" showing an image of the Hard drive. I've initialized the Hard drive several times but it keeps saying it's damaged and to reinitialize it. The icon for the HD no longer appears on desktop. my original 7.0 install diskettes no longer even recognize the existence of a hard drive, and Norton couldn't fix it. what now?

Posted on Mar 4, 2014 5:03 PM

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John Galt

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Mar 4, 2014 5:47 PM in response to Essendrup

The usual remedy is to replace the hard disk. You need a standard 50 pin SCSI half height HD, but make sure to verify that after you remove yours.

Forget Norton, they still haven't gotten it right 20 years later.

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BDAqua

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Mar 4, 2014 5:49 PM in response to Essendrup

Does Disk Tools have a Zero one pass option? I remember using 3rd party tools to do that back then.

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BDAqua

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Mar 4, 2014 5:53 PM in response to John Galt

Forget Norton, they still haven't gotten it right 20 years later.

In fact, as I recall it could ruin a Hard Drive & make it impossible for any other tool to fix it... only useful thing it had was to force mount a volume so other tools could be used on the drive.

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John Galt

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Mar 5, 2014 9:26 AM in response to BDAqua

Some things never change, but Norton keeps on trying. Maybe in another 20 years.

At least Peter Norton was smart enough to cash out to Symantec, which he did immediately upon porting NU to the Mac. Like every product ported from the PC to this day, it was trash. He's probably been laughing ever since.

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Apr 12, 2014 10:28 AM in response to John Galt

Yep, that's it probably to replace the hard disk. Any SCSI I and SCIS II should work. SIngle partition are supported up to 2 GB. It's not a big deal to replace the HDD (I have done it too) but you need torx screwdriver with a long shaft to open the Mac. Once you have the Mac open you may also replace the PRAM battery (ebay).

Enjoy 8 Mhz technology!

Joe-Hamburg

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