Hi Georgia,
Since your eMac can read that CD-R, use Disk Utility/Disk Copy to make an "image" of that scratched CD-R, and burn a new CD-R from that image file and then use this "new" CD-R into your Power Mac 8600.
I have a Power Mac 8600 too, and its CD-ROM drive can read CD-Rs just fine (not sure about CD-RWs though)...
-Andrew
----- Original Message ----- From: "Georgia Thomson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "PCI PowerMacs" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 7:04 AM
Subject: [PCI] 8600 boot problem
Hi, te har ddisk in my powermac 8600 was apprently ont he way out, its no longer being seen, but i was given another 4 gig drive for free (which was quite nice)
however i'm having problems booting from a cd to get an OS installed. the os disc i got with the machine is badly scratched and unreadable, i ran one of those things for removing disc scratches over it and my eMac reads it ok, but i cant get it to copy and make a bootable disc, the powermac refuses point blank to read the original disc, and i'm not sure if it even reads the cd-rs. anyone got any advice, other than pick up another copy off ebay?
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