On 1 May 2005, at 19:20, Allan Hunter wrote:
Not really. Or at least not effectively.
I mean, with some 3rd party utilities you *can* format the drive as HFS, which is necessary for a Mac-bootable drive; but you can't then go onwards to install the Mac operating system.
And since that means that you have to boot your Mac from some other media (floppy, installation CDROM, etc) to install the OS, at which point you could format the drive as HFS on the Mac, being able to do that part from a PC doesn't save you much.
I suppose it *might* be possible to format the drive HFS and then boot up Basilisk (Mac emulator) and then use the emulator running System 7 to install System 7 to the drive -- ??
It's a non-simple operation at best. It would be like installing a bootable Windows 95 to a disk using on the MacOS. Formatting the disk as FAT-32 would only be the beginning.
You can get utilities for Windows that will write Mac disk images to 1.4MB floppies however. I don't know the specifics cause I started 68k Mac-ing with a 7500 on standby to do all that for me. I have done it though but it was along time ago. The name HFSExplorer rings a bell somewhere.
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