use Apple HDSC on the SE that wont show the drive icon

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:34 AM, Niels R. <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I'm totally new to Vintage Macs and System 6.
>
> I've a Macintosh SE (with an internal HDD) wich boots to the floppy-
> with-question-mark icon. I figured I needed some boot disks. I bought
> a Classis (because of the 1.44 MB drive) and was able to make some
> bootdisks using my iMac with USB floppy drive.
>
> Now the Macintosh SE boots with the 1st disk from the System 6.0.8
> 800K disk set. There is no HDD icon on the desktop and when I'm
> running the Installer from the boot disk, it doesn't find a HDD when
> pressing "Switch disk".
>
> The LED on the front of the SE blinks, but I don't know if this means
> there is HDD activity or not. I don't hear HDD sounds, though.
>
> I have another 2 SE's and a SE/30. Can I simply get a HDD out of a
> spare SE (cases are bad, but they boot into System 6 without boot
> disk) and reformat it?
>
> Kind regards,
> Niels R.
>
> PS: The Classic boots into System 6.0.3. Does this mean it boots from
> it's ROM?
>
> >
>

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