Well it took me weeks to find an active mac forum but now i found one i will be posting a lot of things involving my collection of macs.
Let me start with a recent problem.
Last week i booted up my Macintosh SE which was in storage for a year and found out that the hard drive was acting up...AGAIN. The owner before me said that sometimes the interrupt motor got stuck so he opened the case and rotated the interrupt (NEVER DO THIS!!!). Since i had already removed any valueable data from the drive i proceeded to the HD SC setup which was included in my copy of sys. 7 i own. When i initilized the drive it failed during the verify process and became invisible. I have since not been able to use the drive or even access it. I personally suspect the drive was damaged when the interrupt was manually rotated. I do not have a spare drive and i am wondering if there is a way to recover thae drive...even if i have lost half of the drives useable surface or do i just have to go and find a new drive.
Let me start with a recent problem.
Last week i booted up my Macintosh SE which was in storage for a year and found out that the hard drive was acting up...AGAIN. The owner before me said that sometimes the interrupt motor got stuck so he opened the case and rotated the interrupt (NEVER DO THIS!!!). Since i had already removed any valueable data from the drive i proceeded to the HD SC setup which was included in my copy of sys. 7 i own. When i initilized the drive it failed during the verify process and became invisible. I have since not been able to use the drive or even access it. I personally suspect the drive was damaged when the interrupt was manually rotated. I do not have a spare drive and i am wondering if there is a way to recover thae drive...even if i have lost half of the drives useable surface or do i just have to go and find a new drive.