Carloselvis
Level 1
(4 points)
Q: Restore factory configuartion Macintosh SE
Hi! I'm trying to restore the factory settings from my Macintosh SE. I don't have my floppy working and I bought a hard drive with system 7 Installed but I have 4 simm of 256 kb and can't use system 7. is there any way to restore factory configuration settings in this mac To have again system 6 And use it?
I Prefear avoid buy ram to use the system 7, most of the times i have upgraded the ram a lot of problems came out.
Thanks in advance,
Macintosh SE
Jan Hedlund
Level 6
(9,901 points)
Carlos,
One way could possibly be the following:
What about moving the SCSI hard drive in the SE to the LC III to begin with? Remove the old existing LC III hard drive and install the other one. Then install a System 7.1 onto the hard disk in the LC III (assuming that you have modified the system disk set with the required system enabler). It may be sufficient to just drag-copy the system folder from the System 7.1 Disk Tools to the hard disk. Restart. This should mean that the LC III contains a hard drive with a working System 7.1, and that the floppy drive is free for transfers.
Next, copy the System 6 floppy disks to the hard disk inside the LC III. This should result in separate folders for each floppy. Make sure that one folder contains a valid System 6 system folder.
Still on the LC III, rename the System 7.1 System Folder (call it something like "OLD System Folder") and move the System suitcase out of it (place the System suitcase in an empty new folder on the hard disk). This should mean that there is a fully functional hard disk with System 6 (but this may also be the weak point, since we cannot know for sure that any blessing of the system folder will last). Look upon all this as an experiment.
Finally switch off the LC III and move the hard drive back to the SE.
Jan
