[Irinikus]

I've spent hours installing software and games onto my new G3 Beige!
"UnStuffing" multiple disk games such as Riven took hours!



Last night I encountered a problem once I installed Riven from disk 1: while copying the contents of the data directories on discs 2 to 5 into the data directory in the Riven game directory on the system’s drive (This needs to be done in order to run it diskless), I suffered a disk error which the “disk first aid” application in OS9 couldn’t resolve, as it couldn’t even read the system disk!!!!

So I removed the hard drive and brought out my G4 Digital Audio!

I had a spare 80GB ATA drive lying around, so I repartitioned it using the G4. After completing this task, I thought, “let me try and repartition the failed disk”!

So I fitted the failed disk into the G4, booted off the OSX installation disk and ran the disk utility!

Rather than repartitioning it first go, I opted to try and repair it using the OSX disk utility.

Like magic, it was able to see the disk and carry out the repair!

I returned the “now repaired” disk to the G3 beige, and it worked!!!

I was able to successfully complete the installation of Riven before calling it a night, or morning for that matter!

Through all of this drama, I didn’t lose my OS9 setup which I had spent hours setting up!







The lesson I learned here is: don’t be too quick to try and repartition a “failed” disk!