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Post #7 by Concorde1993
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryTroubleshooting
Post DateMon, 6 Sep 2010 - 02:14
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/apple-sc20-problem.21252/
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The most obvious step is to replace the system folder on the hard drive with the one off the floppy.
In regards to Mac 128's comment, the system folder I put on the floppy was the system folder originally installed on the hard drive. The information I put on the disk was the system file (of course), chooser, background, startup disk, and a couple of other things but it does not come to mind right now. For some reason, HD setup was not installed on the hard drive, so I could not include that with the new startup floppy.

To give some background information on the hard drive, the individual I bought it from originally used the drive as his startup disk for his 87 Mac SE, which had the dual 800k drive setup. The SC20 is even labeled "MAC SE." Furthermore, I read over the comments made about speed. Since I have tried the SC20 on both the 512ke/Plus hybrid, and the SE, there are no improvements in the amount of time it takes for the disk to mount. As a matter of fact, the drive is pretty quick in response (considering there are about 230 files on it). The only exception would have to be with the SE, since I have to boot it first in 7.1, then restart the computer to have it boot in 6.0.4 on the SC20 (but that does not bother me).

In regards to backup, I have version 1.1 of Retrospect (with its original box & manuals too!), and naturally I do intend to archive, and duplicate everything I have on the drive in case it happens to fail.

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