Hi listers, I have a problem with the disk utility, and I was hoping to get some assistance. Long story short, I want to make images of some old program CDS I have in my collection. These disks date back to the nineties and are no longer sold. I want to make images I can use for my windows XP virtual machine and back up on my external hard drive Here is the problem however. These disks were also designed to work with the old macintosh OS. So, when I put these disks in under fusion, I see the windows files and read me instructions. However, when I mount the disk to my macintosh desktop, I see the old classic mac applications on the disk: the windows program files are nowhere to be found. The second problem is that, after making an image from the disk in disk utility, and trying to mount it to my windows VM, I get the following error message. This disk is unreadable by windows. The disk may be corrupt, or is in a format not readable by windows. However, when I try to mount the image in finder, it shows up fine. I can still see the read me files, albeit for installing the game to the old mac system 7.1, and not windows. I'm guessing that the disk utility is only reading the macintosh portion of the games, and is making images of those while leaving the windows stuff behind. My question is this. How can I make an ISO of the entire disk, including the windows contents that I can't even see from my mac? Is this even possible? These disks are getting old, and I want to digitize/save them onto my hard drive for safe keeping.
I hope this makes sense, and that someone else has faced a similar problem. Thanks, John P.S. As a funny afternote, the minimum requirements for running these games on the mac side is 14 MB of ram and quicktime version 2.5. lol. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
