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Operating System / Re: Installing System 7 Without Floppy or CD
March 28, 2025, 10:23 |
I just got the FDD working (it wouldn't eject, removing the door fixed it), so I ordering a boot floppy from that site should be an option if it comes to that. I've already got a BlueSCSI on the way, but it won't arrive soon enough. I won't be home for a few weeks after this weekend, so I'm hoping to find a solution without needing anything I don't already have. Are there any ways to force Finder to load? I've got a full Mac OS 8 system folder located on the desktop, so if there's a way to boot from that then I'll be good. If I find my Latitude D630 then I'll be good. I've got an FDD in it and it's what I've used in the past for writing floppies. Otherwise I can try to write an 800k boot disk with my Macintosh SE (I've never had trouble using a 1.44 as an 800k disk), but both FDDs in my SE are finnicky. |
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Operating System / Installing System 7 Without Floppy or CD
March 28, 2025, 05:59 |
Hi, I was upgrading my PowerBook 520C to Mac OS 8 (don't kill me lol), but I bumped the power adapter and it lost power in the middle of the update. It now gets stuck on the Welcome to Macintosh screen, unless I boot with extensions off. Then it (mostly) boots, but Finder doesn't load. I no longer have a way to write floppy disks, and I don't have a CD reader for it. My second-oldest Mac is my iBook G3/500 with OS 9 on it, so I can network from there (though I don't know how). What are my options? |
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Hardware / Re: Macintosh SE - Both Floppy Drives Dead
July 12, 2024, 23:41 |
One of them reads and writes from disks, but after a lot of disk swaps it starts to slow down/struggle to eject. After waiting for a bit it works fine again, and I haven't had this problem at all today. It could even be down to me using 1.44MB diskettes with the hole on the right side taped over. My PowerBook 520C reads and writes these as 800k disks fine (and the SE reads/writes to them fine as well) but the PowerBook can't fully eject them with the thin tape, I have to grab tweezers to finish the job. The HDD does not show up in drive setup and Disk First Aid doesn't do anything. When the machine first arrived it booted to a question mark but after a few restarts it booted fine to System 6.0.8, so I ran the Disk First Aid program that came on the HDD just to check it out, and it said it was fine then. I can hear the HDD spin up, but it doesn't make any other noises and it stops after a little bit. It was in use in a medical environment (looked like maybe a nicu from what I saw, no patient records on there thankfully) and it had some really interesting software on there that I would like to archive. |
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Hardware / Re: Macintosh SE - Both Floppy Drives Dead
July 11, 2024, 22:18 |
The HDD stopped making noise and I get a question mark. I’ve got one of the floppy drives working, sorta. More work is needed. |
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Hardware / Macintosh SE - Both Floppy Drives Dead
July 11, 2024, 07:13 |
Hiya! I purchased an SE with dual 800k FDDs (and an aftermarket internal 50MB HDD) and both FDDs are totally dead. I can't even insert a disk, it won't let me. They make absolutely no attempt to accept the disks and do nothing at boot. What would be the likely culprit, and how difficult is it to repair these drives? Thanks! EDIT: Got at least one floppy drive working, though ejecting is a little wonky. I might've just misaligned the drives slightly when reinstalling them. On a side note, the HDD died right before I got the FDD working and it has some pretty neat 80s/90s medical software that I can't find online. Any suggestions on how I can resurrect it enough to get the data off it? |
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