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Neal_SE30
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on: March 25, 2024, 20:42
Hi guys, I have a new hhd in my SE/30 but it appears it’s windows formatted. How do I do I format it. What software. I thought CMS 6.04, I.e. old lido but it didn’t recognize it. Any ideas or could you email me software to Neal.palmer@mac.com Thanks Neal |
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wove
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1024 MB Posts: 1363
Reply #1 on: March 26, 2024, 02:34
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A Mac OS Installer will not format it? Sort of a throw away answer, sorry. I noticed the .mac address. I have one of those as well. I got it when I upgraded to OS 9. There was a point when it worked with Claris Emailer. Besides myself I knew one person with a dot mac address and now I know two. 
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MTT
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256 MB Posts: 394 SSW7 Oldtimer
Reply #2 on: March 26, 2024, 04:46
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Quote from: Neal_SE30: "I have a new hhd in my SE/30 but it appears it’s windows formatted."Normally in System 7 you would startup from a "Disk Tools" floppy, or in the case of System 6, a "Utilities 1" (800k floppy) or a "System Startup" (1.4MB floppy) disk, and run "Apple HD SC Setup", using that utility to format your HD. But, if this new HD has been formatted for Windows or DOS then it may not be a hard drive which includes a Mac HD EPROM. This would make it unusable by the "Apple HD SC Setup" apps, present on those official boot floppies. If that is the case, then you can try the patched "Apple HD SC Setup" from the Macintosh Garden, which will format any SCSI HD, regardless if it was intended for or formatted on non-Mac systems. The copy to download from that page, is at DL#1: "DiskTools-753-patched.sit (1.22 MB)". It is a System 7.5.3 bootable 1.4 MB floppy image with the patched HD SC Setup on board. This will be able to start up an SE/30 and you should then be able to format that HD. You will need to write the image to 1.4MB floppy media and start your SE/30 with that floppy, before you will be able to format the drive. If all goes well, you'll then be able to install an OS of your choice (System 6 or 7).
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Bolkonskij
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Administrator 1024 MB  Posts: 2023
Reply #3 on: March 26, 2024, 08:38
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Another alternative would be Lido. Get it from the Macintosh Garden page. I've used it successfully with a Mac SE up to PowerPC machines for formatting drives.
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Neal_SE30
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256 MB Posts: 401 System 7 Newcomer!
Reply #4 on: March 26, 2024, 19:22
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Thanks guys. The drive is ex Mac but likely PowerPC. I’ll try lido as its predecessor cms didn’t work. When I try to installl 7.1 no drive shows but it’s spinning and was working. It’ll be the weekend now P.s. I tried apple hd tool it didn’t work Neal
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Bolkonskij
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Administrator 1024 MB Posts: 2023
Reply #5 on: March 27, 2024, 14:46
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Good luck! Did you try the patched HD tool that MTT mentioned? IIRC it was patched to also support non-Apple hard drives and *should* work. If Lido also won't find anything, you may want to double check all cables again (jumpered to what?)
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