My prior advice is still relevant if you've got a 512 and no way to boot it. Then you need operating system files and/or diskimages, and a pre-MacOS 8 environment to create the diskettes in.
Final disclaimer: I would not rule out the possibility that Disk Copy under MacOS 8 or 9 would make valid 400K disks from 400K diskimages, it just won't be able to mount the suckers (either as images or as actual disks). I don't KNOW that it can, I'm just not positive that it can't.
At 9:28 PM -0500 3/16/05, Allan Hunter wrote:
At 6:56 PM -0500 3/16/05, Thomas Burns wrote:I just picked up a Mac 512k that someone was going to turn into a maquarium (heaven forbid).
My question is how do I make a 400k system disk for it? Someone earlier told me you can make 800k disks by putting tape over the hole on regular 1.4mb disks. Is there any way to format a 1.4 as a 400k?
Yes, but you'll need a Mac that can still natively boot System 7.x because beginning with MacOS 8 (if I recall correctly) there's no longer native support for the file system (MFS) that 400K diskettes use.
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