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Classic II hard drive broken

Posted by: bman12three4 on 2015-05-14 14:05:59 I have a recapped classic 2 mobo with an 80mb hard-drive. I plugged in the hard drive, turned the mac on and booted from the system 7 disk utilities floppy. Once the reformatting was done, I restarted the mac and installed system 7 on it. This all worked well and I played Oregon trail on it for a while, but after I turned off the computer a couple of times, the drive stopped showing up. When I power up the mac, I get the missing OS floppy icon, and when I boot from the Disk Utilities I don't see the drive on the desktop, or with the actual application. The drive sounds the same as it did when it was working. The mac came with a hard drive installed but it didn't recognize it either. What can I do to fix it?

Posted by: uniserver on 2015-05-14 14:25:18 maybe its got the stiction? maybe you could try this? https://www.thinkclassic.org/viewtopic.php?id=263 other wise you can get a SCSI2SD for it.  I would say the Classic II is worth the investment. http://shop.codesrc.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=58 or you could also get a Floppy emu,   The Classic II does have HD20 support built in. http://www.bigmessowires.com/macintosh-floppy-emu/ I sell a modern HD vintage mac solution for $50each. Comes with proper 50 pin adaptor. 73gig,  2.5" 10K RPM, 8m Cache, Extremely Quiet, Extremely Fast, and the least expensive modern solution. Or you could find old hd's on ebay, if you find your self an 80m or 160m, IBM those seem to hold up much better then the Connor, Quantum variants.  The old HD, though are just that.  might get one that last along time, might get it and be in the same board in 6 weeks.

Posted by: Juliet Elysa on 2015-05-14 23:07:12 If stiction is the problem, a light tap on the side of the hard drive can temporarily help. Not always, but it's happened before. If it does get the drive going, don't turn it off until you have all the data you need backed up. It doesn't sound like there's anything important on the drive that you need to recover, but I'm throwing this out there just in case. 🙂

Posted by: Paralel on 2015-05-16 19:03:45 Depending on the stiction, I find it can take more than a light rap on the side of the machine. In my Classic II's case, I had to brace it with one hand and hit it as hard as I could on the side with the other to get it to unstick. Its worked fine ever since.

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