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07.31.2001

good lord, i’m tired…

i was at Linda’s house til past 11pm last night try­ing to restore her power mac g3 to work­ing con­di­tion. i’m almost amazed that i was able to do it. it’s not often that you’re able to restore a hard drive to work­ing order. i arrived at her house in edge­field just after 5pm. when i got there, she was obvi­ously dis­traught. it seems like melt-downs like this always occur when you’re work­ing hard­est to meet a dead­line. any­ways, i tried boot­ing up the mac. no dice. blink­ing folder icon. crap. diag­no­sis: something’s wrong with the sys­tem folder. next, i tried boot­ing from the sys­tem disk. exten­sion con­flicts. dou­ble crap. what’s going on? at that point, i was a lit­tle per­turbed, to say the least. i then tried to boot up from nor­ton util­i­ties. good lord, it worked. comp was boot­ing up from that disk. comp fully boots up. i can see the hard drive Papa GIG (which has the sys­tem soft­ware on it.) good… the disk doesn’t appear to be dam­aged. i didn’t think the disk would appear at all if some­thing major were wrong with. linda and i went through and checked to see if any­thing needed to be saved off of it. nope. good deal. i ran some tests on the drive with nor­ton. found major errors. not sur­pris­ing. fix the probs it found. then pro­ceeded to zero the hard drive.

things were pro­gress­ing well. installed os 9 onto the drive. i booted the hard drive on its own. yay!! it wasn’t com­pletely screwed! i loaded the scsi dri­vers into the sys­tem fold­ers in order to access Linda’s prized baby gig, momma gig and jarod hard dri­ves. yay! they were still there, untouched. i loaded all of her old pro­grams onto the refor­mat­ted hard drive (papa gig) and after a total of six hours i had the whole thing up and run­ning again. i have to admit, it looked bleak when i first got there. i wasn’t sure if i’d be able to get it online again, but lo and behold i fixed it. the sys­tem still has some kinks in it because we weren’t able to test every­thing within the six hour period… but it is usable once again.

it is quite nice to be able to breathe life into a machine that seems like its tee­ter­ing towards death’s door. hope­fully it will behave itself for a good while.

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