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Save a PowerBook 5300!!!

I'm trying to revive a PowerBook 5300. The only thing it needs is a OS installed properly. Anyway, I have only a PC and I don't anybody with a Mac system (with a floppy drive). I found a link in this forum (here) where someone was able to boot it from a floppy created by a software called MACDISK.EXE. When I accessed the thread this link it was dead, but today I could find it alive back so I downloaded it to my PC, formatted a floppy and runned the MACDISK but always when I put this MACDISK formatted floppy in the PowerBook, It always spit the floppy back. I already cleaned the PRAM to try to solve this issue but it also does't work. Maybe the floppy drive is dead? Is there any mean to access the hardware info in the PowerBook (like the BIOS settings in the PC)?

PowerBook 5300, Mac OS 8.6 or Earlier

Posted on Feb 17, 2008 12:01 PM

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Texas Mac Man

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Posted on Feb 17, 2008 1:56 PM

Read all of the reply answers to the posts you refer to. here's one reply:

+The MACDISK.EXE diskette you created does not contain a System File and will not boot your Mac. It has the important "missing link" Stuffit Expander, which is needed to de-compress any other Mac files you download from the Internet.+

+A diskette inserted at startup has top priority, so if it does not contain a bootable system, it will be ejected.+

You need a CD/floppy copy of the OS you intend to install.

 Cheers, Tom 😉

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