Format Floppy Disk

A friend of mine who is running OS X (Panther) asked me how he would format a floppy disk using his external (USB) floppy drive. I have not been able to find how to do this. The disk utility does not broach this subject. Is it possible to do this or must one be content to just manually erase files?

iBook G-4 Mac OS X (10.4.4) 1.33 GHz, 768 MB memory, 60 GB HD, iPod Shuffle

Posted on Feb 16, 2006 7:01 AM

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Mar 3, 2006 12:02 PM in response to Beavis2084

Hi Beavis2084,

It would work as far as duplicating the disk images onto floppy disks, but since no Macs support USB booting, you wouldn't be able to start up to the first disk in order to perform an install of OS 7.0.1.

I'm not familiar with the Mac Classic, but if it has a CD drive, you may be able to burn your own disk that has the floppy disk images on it. You could do that by using Toast or the built in OS X Burn utility to create a disk image of a bootable Mac CD (OS 9.x or earlier) to the hard drive. Then if there's enough room, drag the floppy images into the disk image to add them to it. Burn a new disk from the disk image and boot the Mac Classic to that. Then you can mount all of the floppy disk images and install 7.0.1.

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