Hilfe Gesucht

[Karsten Kuehn]

Dear Wayne,

thank you very much for your offer to help!

Yes, perhaps you and all the other members of this list might help me.

Below is the story of my Duo 2300 which  is really strange.

I purchased a Duo 2300 about a year ago. It is an US Version of the Duo and
System 7.6.a was 
installed on it.

Like with all my other computers I own, I reformatted the hard drive and
partitioned it to get two  
HDs. The reason for this was, that I always want to have two system folders
on every computer. 
If one system gets corrupted I would be able two switch to the other
partition and to try to 
repair the system from there.

Unfortunately, this is the result:

The system 7.6.1 on the one partitition produces "b-tree errors" almost evry
day. Both First Aid 
and Norton Disc Doctor 3.2 detect these errors and are able to repair them.

Moreover, I was not able to get any System run on the other partitition. I
tried 7.5.5 from the 
Apple website, I tried 7.6 from the System CD of a Powermac 8600. I also
tried system 8.1 and 
9.1 from other ressources. All these Systems work, but the computer does not
allow me to 
switch to them by using the control panel "startup disk"
 
The comuter does not even start from the original emergency disk of System
7.6.1.

All those systems weren't corrupt or incomplete. Once I intentionally
corrupted my original 7.6.1 
(by removing the finder from the System Folder) all those systems were
working fine.

I also tried to upgrade/downgrade the hd driver by using all those hd-setup
utilities provided by 
apple. But nothing worked.

I also tested the HD by using HD setup, it has not a single damaged block!

As far as I can see, the only remaining option is to reformat the HD again. 
For this purpose I need a good working system for my DUO.

If you have any suggestions or even a vague idea what is going wrong with my
duo, please do 
not hesitade to tell me!

Thank you!

Karsten

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