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Thanks to Silverlining Pro 6.1 I could install a proper driver on the drive and managed to create two partitions of roughly 600 MB each then, with version 6.5.8 I was finally able to initialise and mount one of those partitions. I looked in my archives and found an old copy of Silverlining, then a newer one (Silverlining Pro 6.1). After many, many fruitless efforts, and with Apple’s Drive Setup being this close to succeeding, my friend Grant Hutchinson suggested I tried using Silverlining Pro. Since I knew that that Quantum Fireball drive had bad sectors, I figured that the best course of action was attempting to partition it in different ways, so that maybe I could at least get to a point where, say, two out of three or four partitions were in a good-enough state to be mounted as volumes. So I went and tried to initialise/partition it, but unfortunately I kept getting errors.Īnother frustrating chapter was beginning: trying different applications (on different Macs) to create partitions and logical volumes on the disk.

When I returned to the living-room after about an hour, HDT Primer was already done, and a dialog box informed me that the hard drive had been successfully formatted. I let it work and went to my studio to take care of other business. HDT Primer recognised the drive and let me perform a low-level formatting, warning that the operation would take 81 minutes. On the Macintosh Classic I have an older version (1.8) of the FWB hard disk utilities, so I launched HDT Primer and see what it could do. It indeed tried to fix a few issues, but I was starting to get the feeling that whatever had been on that drive was irrecoverable.įrom that point on, I dropped any attempt to diagnose or repair the drive and focussed on actually trying to format and mount it. When it came to checking the drive’s directory structure, Norton Disk Doctor kept throwing alarming errors.

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After twenty minutes with the progress bar in the “Checking for bad blocks” test that was not progressing, I skipped the test (as soon as the Mac registered my input). Clicking on Examine started a very long process where Norton Disk Doctor appeared to be running in slow-motion. At first, it didn’t detect the Quantum drive, but after issuing the “Show Missing Disks” command, the drive showed up. Since I still have all my Compact Macs out these days after performing a general check-up on them, I took the Macintosh Classic, connected the SCSI drive enclosure to it, and launched Norton Disk Doctor.

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I rebooted again in Mac OS 9.2.2 and launched Disk First Aid, which did detect the drive but gave up almost immediately during the verification process, saying something along the lines of “This disk has too many errors and I can’t repair it.”

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I rebooted in Mac OS X Tiger and tried DiskWarrior 3 under Mac OS X. I booted in Mac OS 9.2.2, launched DiskWarrior, but it didn’t even detect the Quantum hard drive in the SCSI enclosure. The PowerBook G3 Lombard was at hand, and fit the criteria.

Then I remembered I had a CD-ROM with a copy of DiskWarrior for the classic Mac OS (version 2.1, I think), so the fastest route was switching to a Mac with both a CD-ROM drive and a SCSI port. My initial approach, I have to say, was to try to read and/or salvage any useful data stored on the drive before attempting a reformatting. I launched FWB Hard Disk Toolkit 2.5, but the result was the same. I tried to mount it with FWB Mounter, but mounting failed after two long minutes during which the Mac appeared completely frozen. Also, it was immediately detected on the SCSI chain, and FWB Mounter gave me hope: The third, a surprisingly compact and lightweight 1.2 GB Quantum Fireball drive, powered up and made all the right little noises that indicate a possibly functioning hard drive. All the diagnostic tools at my disposal didn’t even detect its presence on the SCSI chain. The second, a nice 9 GB Seagate ST39140N made a low humming noise when I powered up the SCSI enclosure, then silence. The first drive, a 500 MB Quantum-something, made a few terrible clicks while trying to mount, and repeatedly failed. I found a few hard drives (both SCSI and IDE) in “I honestly don’t remember” conditions, so I took out three SCSI drives and put them in my external drive enclosure, connected to the Macintosh Colour Classic. After the unexpected setback with the hard drive extracted from the Quadra 950, I once again rummaged inside a couple of boxes with stored assorted vintage stuff in search of a possible candidate.