Format Floppy Disk

Have you tried Disk Utility?

Beavis2084

OS X does not directly support floppy disks. The USB drive should have come with a utility to do that. Also, only 1.44 MB high density disks are supported. 720K disks won't work.

Kurt,
This is news to me. Can I ask then...

I have a Macintosh Classic I got from eBay. All is good, but the Finder is password protected, and there is no way to get it.

I don't have the install floppies, so I downloaded System 7.0.1 image. It contains images for each of the floppies.

Will I be able to buy this drive and write the images at all?


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.

well there is a floppy drive in the Mac, so I guess I'll have to take a $30 chance and get the drive. All I need to do is insert the Install disc, reboot it. It should work fine from there... Just needed that "can I write images to..." question answered before plunking $30.... 😀


Thanks!

Beavis2084

Oh! Yeah, since it has a built in floppy drive, you should be good to go once you've duplicated the images onto floppies, as long as it can read 1.44 MB disks.