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I want to burn a CD to use on my old Color Classic running System 7.1. This used to be easy by selecting 'Mac OS Standard' in Dsik Utility when creating a disk image, however the option now seems to have disappeared.
Does anybody know how I can now burn an HFS (not HFS+) CD?
You might need to find a copy of Roxio Toast compatible with both your operating system and HFS Standard. Check with Roxio.
Thanks. I have Toast 11 at home so will give that a try.
So can anyone confirm that Apple has removed the ability to format HFS in Lion? I know you definitely could still with 10.5. Don't think I ever tried with 10.6.
Having similar challenges: Want to burn a CD that my Macintosh Classic II can read.
It runs on System 7.5.5 and doesn't recognize "Mac OS Extended" CDs.
Ironically, it will recognize and read CDs burned in Windows, though it can't do anything with the files other than recognize they exist. Seems ironic that the Mountain Lion cannot at least do the same.
This guide showed how to make "Mac OS Standard" CDs in Mac OS X, though it now appears to be outdated. Surely, there is a way to do this without forking over eighty bucks for a program like Roxio Toast - that may or may not do what the base OS should be able to do.
If anyone knows (or suspects) a fix or work-around for this (including leveraging the Unix command line functions), I'm all ears.
This was obviously some time ago but I did manage it eventually, by downloading an older version of Toast (10 or 11 perhaps?) that still had the HFS option. Have a hunt around online for an older version of Toast, I'm sure you can find a trial or something.
I took a look at Toast 11, but it no longer has the option to choose HFS or HFS+. I know earlier versions did.
Thanks for the recommendations. Looked online, and even Toast 10 runs over fifty bucks. Seems an expensive gamble for something that may or may not work.
My uncle has an old iMac running OS X Tiger. May see if I can borrow that long enough to burn some CDs.
Found a copy of the version 10 manual online. It notes this for HFS Standard:
Creating a Temporary Partition
You can create a temporary partition on your hard disk that can be used to set up data you want to record to a disc. Temporary partitions allow you to have better control over the layout of your data and how its windows are
arranged and displayed.
To create a temporary partition:
1 Choose Utilities > Create Temporary Partition.
2 Enter the size for the partition. Choose a size that is appropriate for the disc that you intend to make from the partition. For example, 650 MB is suitable for a CD and 4300 MB is suitable for a DVD.
3 Choose the file system format for the partition:
■ Mac OS Extended: The best choice for discs to be used on Mac OS 8.1 or later, including any Mac OS X system.
■ Mac OS Standard: For discs to be used on computers running Mac OS 8 or lower.
■ UNIX File System: For discs to be used on the UNIX operating system.
4 Click OK.
Toast mounts the partition on the Desktop. You can add files or folders to
this partition.
You can actually do the same thing in Toast 11. Big problem, though. The HFS Standard disk image it creates and mounts on the desktop is read only, so you can't add anything to it. One of the members at Roxio's forums had this to say:
I just checked and got the same result. The permissions are for read only. However, I found a workaround. Instead of creating a HFS Standard partition, create a HFS Extended partition. When it mounts the permissions allow read & write. Add your content in the Finder. Now choose Mac Volume as the format in the Toast Data window. Select the mounted partition and burn the disc. The burned disc will be HFS Standard.
I haven't tried his approach, so I don't know if that's correct. I also tried using Disk Utility to create a .dmg I could drop into Toast 11, but you can only create HFS Extended images.
Okay, I figured out a cool work-around:
Have a MacBook Pro we bought 2008, and it shipped with OS X Leopard. I'd recently upgraded the HD in this thing to a larger and and much faster hybrid, and it's been upgraded to Mountain Lion.
So, pulled out the new HD and put in the older one. Then installed the original Leopard software. Turns out that it has full support for HFS Standard. So was able to burn the CD, and my Macintosh Classic II with Apple CD 300e Plus read it without a hitch.
On to the next puzzle: For some reason the older Apple CD 300e Plus can read CDs the Macintosh PowerBook 12X CDROM module in my PowerBook 3400c can't read. Strange.
Lesson available: Mac OS X Leopard does have support for burning CDs with HFS Standard. For some reason, later versions don't.
On to the next puzzle: For some reason the older Apple CD 300e Plus can read CDs the Macintosh PowerBook 12X CDROM module in my PowerBook 3400c can't read. Strange.
Could be right around the time for one of those Macs where 700MB CDs replaced 650MB disks. I had an external that behaved like that. I could use 700MB disks, but if I put more than 650 MB of data on it, the drive would see it as blank. Which was particularly dumb when you burned a bit under 700MB in that drive, and then it couldn't read the disk it just burned.
Burning a HFS/Mac OS Standard CD for System 7
