My Reply follows quote. On 01/08/2003 19:04 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >Hi Everyone: > >You may remember me. I have the Mac SE that will not boot up. I get the >disk with the question mark in the middle. I did try one suggestion. I >covered the hole where there was not protector on the 1.4 Mb disk but the SE >showed a disk with an X through it and released it, so no luck there. I'm >hoping that the drive is okay. > >The problem may well be where do I find any 800K disks? I have Mac OS 6.0.8 >on cd, which I downloaded on Apple's archive website. I might have one >machine that I can put together to create the disks but I have two >problems. >The first being that I am not sure if either machine has a 1.4 Mb disk >drive. The machines are a PowerMac 7200 and 7500. The second problem is >that, even if they the drives are 1.4Mb, I would still need the four 800K >disks to copy to so the SE can read it. > > >Thanks >David Harris >[EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------- You can be sure that both the 7200 and 7500 have 1.4 Mb drives. I think all Macs after the SE had them. In fact, the SE FDHD had that drive.
You can't really just "copy onto" the 800k disks and be sure they will boot the SE. You really need to load the disk images to the desktop and use Disk Copy to "Make a Floppy" to get "real" 6.08 bootable disks. You can try office supply stores for the disks as they are the same used in a lot of older word processors. Ken -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
