Our first SE was a dual internal floppy model for convenience in making disk copies. That is because the software does not see one of those disks available in the drive. You also said that the Mac to DOS and Mac to PRODOS options were greyed out. If not, you may have a damaged head in the drive. If you have that drive, it should recognize an IBM formatted floppy. Important." It was later named the super drive. In environments where access to and use of data from other computers is The Macintosh* SE/FDHD is designed to make it easier to work "The enhanced SE has a built-in Apple* FDHD* (Floppy Drive High Density)ġ.4MB floppy disk drive, replacing the 800K drive previously used in The bottom line is that you need to know what drive you have. This site gives the "brutal full" body of information on the topic of ALL Apple disk drives: This article gives a little history and the steps needed to convert data on a disk from one type to the next: There is a subtle difference.Ī quick look at the "Storage" specifications for each will tell you which floppy drive you have. Your problems may be caused by disks that the drive cannot read or that cannot be recognized. Then you insert a DOS formatted floppy and the right side should automatically change to the DOS side. The next step is to select a file on the left side which will remain the Mac side. Once that information is on the screen, you have already launched Apple File Exchange (AFE). "When I open up the icon I've got a panel reading Mac to Mac and underneath that Text Translation and Default Translation." "I can't figure out how to launch the Apple File Exchange 7.0 - 1986 - 1989. Also, it would not be a bad idea to create a set of backup copies. Before you make any attempt to transfer files, make sure that your original floppy disks are locked (write-protected). You may want to use Google to search for, for instance, HFVExplorer. Either should allow the use of PC-formatted disks in the Macintosh computer.Īlternatively, a suitable utility would make it possible to read Mac-formatted 1.4 MB (but not 400 or 800K) floppies in the PC. System 7.1, a separate program (Apple File Exchange, on the Tidbits system floppy) can be used instead. If you have a non-PC Exchange version of e.g. PC Exchange might not have been standard with the existing operating system on the Classic II. This will happen if the Mac does not have a PC Exchange control panel in the Control Panels folder (or, with such a control panel in place, the machine has been started with Extensions Off). I hope I made the matter a little bit clearer.Problem is that the MAC forces me to reformat the disc before it will allow me to use the disc ![]() In the worst case you will need to do all the steps a., b. above automagically, but surely it won't do c. It is entirely possible that the software that you are using is capable of doing a. correct the start address (and the size if you changed it during the "clone"/"deploy") in the PBR to reflect the new, different address to which you wrote the "volume" or "superfloppy" ![]() have the different target addresses as a valid partition entry in the MBRī. If #1 everything should be OK, BUT the Disk Signature will be different (cannot say if this is relevant to the booting), possibly you will need to recreate/refresh the ldlinux.sys anywayĪ. If you instead "clone" the "volume" only, the area on target might be EITHER:ġ) exactly the same addresses (which implies that among the other partitions you already created one starting on LBA 67 sectors in size)Ģ) different addresses, let's say starting at LBA 2,134,598 (and possibly enlarging it to 3,148,875 sectors) The "target" will likely work but will have only one partition (and any partition that was there before will be lost). Now if you "clone" the "whole stick", it will overwrite everything (up to 1,000,000 sectors) on the target. The ldlinux.sys will contain similar data. The PBR of the filesystem will have as data 63 sectors before and 995967 sectors in size. When you use YUMI on it, it will make a MBR with a partition entry for a FAT32 filesystem starting on sector LBA 63 and size 995967 sectors (or whatever below 1,000,000 that respects CHS boundaries). Imagine that the USB stick is only 1,000,000 sectors in size. You need to copy (not "clone", "deploy" - provided that the tool you are using allows that) the volume, then adapt the data in the MBR, PBR to the new location on target and finally rebuild the ldlinux.sys. NOW: I will "clone" the whole USB stick again, I think I did not copy the MBR (?), Just the PBR from the stick.You cannot copy the MBR too (or you will effectively re-partition the target).
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