Mounting and Fixing Drives

Mounting and fixing a supposedly unmountable and unfixable hard drive As described in this MacFixIt Forums thread, a user was unable to startup his Mac whenever a certain drive was attached, regardless of whether or not it was the startup drive. An Apple Authorized Service Provider told him it was hopeless and the drive needed to be replaced. It turned out (as also suggested in this MacFixIt Forums thread) that the drive was saved (although not the data on it) by starting up the Mac from the Linux OS. -110 errors Do you frequently get -110 Finder Quit errors? If so, check out the advice in this MacFixIt Forums thread. Fixing a Quark launch error After updating to QuarkXPress 4.11, some users have been unable to open the application, getting an error that says: "QuarkXPress could not be found." The solution, as described in this MacFixIt Forum thread, is to rename the application. Time Warner cable modems: a follow-up The thread on Time Warner cable modem problems, first mentioned here last week, continues to be active, including a reply by Jon Paris, an "@home tech." Installing software with or without extensions disabled; what's best? When installing a new program, should you disable all extensions first? Or just disable some extensions? Or should you just leave your standard set of extensions enabled? This MacFixIt Forums thread provides some advice. Fixing a QuickTime movie launch glitch We have not had a problem here, but a few readers in this MacFixIt Forums thread agree that disabling the automatic file translation option in the File Exchange control panel will prevent the problem they had with getting certain QuickTime movie files to open when double-clicking the file in the Finder. Lotus 123 and Mac OS 9 For those of you that still use Lotus 123, a posting in this MacFixIt Forums thread says that it still works in Mac OS 9 unless you are also using Ram Doubler 9. Netscape and tiny text with Epson printers: one more time! It's been covered numerous times before, but we still get questions about it. This MacFixIt Forums thread covers the problem and solution to tiny text when printing from Netscape to an Epson printer.