[hagar57]

Hi,
I just got a used 165 Powerbook with 4 MB RAM and a 160MB harddrive. I wanted to install a fresh system 7.1 with the proper floppies, however, there was a program Norton Utilities and Something called Encryption on the harddrive. When I wanted to initialize the drive, the harddrive locked up. I have not been able to resuscitate the drive. I have a version of FWB HD toolkit (version 2.0), but I cannot install as it requires 5 MB of physical RAM, or so it claims. I can boot from an external CD-ROM with a System7.6 CD, I can boot from an external SCSI harddrive, but the internal disk cannot be initialised.
My question: is there a work around to reformat the drive? Any freeware or shareware that will do the job and run under 7.1 and 4 MB of memory? I'd really appreciate any help. I never used Norton. So I have no clue.

[hagar57]

I booted from an external CD drive w/ MacOS 7.6 CD and applied FWB Harddisk Toolkit 1.8. Formatting would not work, however, I could initialise and partition the harddrive. I have these stupid hammers as harddrive icon, but otherwise the Powerbook is back in working condition.

[mystery_stain]

If you want, I think in that system you can change the disk icons by selecting the disk icon and pasting a new bitmap on it. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Grant_G]

Select any icon you like and copy (Command-C) it. Then single-click/select the hard drive's hammer icon and type Command-I to bring up the Get Info window. Select the hammer icon within that window, and paste the one you want (Command-V) in its place. It even works with a photo, although not very good res.
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