Re: Floppy Question?

At 16:09 -0400 on 08/11/02, Jason White wrote: >That's what I was afraid of. I know I read this somewhere once (a thread >here or on the FAQ) but can you still get 800k floppies anywhere? Or, You read it in the FAQ, where it still is ;) >even better, is there a way to convert an 800k image to a

Re: Floppy Question?

>Mount it on the desktop using Disk Copy or MountImage or whatever you prefer. > >Select All -> Drag to 1.4 disk. Works quite well. I've had some issues with >bootdisks of ancient system releases on MFS format disks, but otherwise it >seems to work fine. I even made a HD bootable disk of System .

Re: Floppy Question?

At 04:09 PM 11/8/2002 -0400, you wrote: >shy >of copying it to an 800k disk and then copying that disk's contents to a >1.4m disk and then making an image of that? I've got a pile of disk >images that I want to burn onto a CDR, but I want to able to use them >again in the future. > >Thanks, > >J Wh

Re: Floppy Question?

>No, but you can copy it to an 800K disk in a 1.4MB drive. >-- That's what I was afraid of. I know I read this somewhere once (a thread here or on the FAQ) but can you still get 800k floppies anywhere? Or, even better, is there a way to convert an 800k image to a 1.4m image shy of copying it t

Re: Floppy Question?

Sure. Make the image on the computer's desktop. Open it, and copy the contents to the 1.4 MB disk. Jeff -- Compact Macs is sponsored by . Support Low End Mac Compact Macs list info:

Re: Floppy Question?

At 17:35 -0400 on 07/11/02, Jason White wrote: >I know you're not supposed to use 1.4 M floppies with 800K drives (even >with the tape over the hole trick). But what I'm confused about is disk >images. If I have an 800k image can I copy that to 1.4m floppy in a 1.4m >drive? No, but you can copy i

Re: Floppy Question?

older -Original Message- From: Compact Macs [mailto:compact.macs@;mail.maclaunch.com] On Behalf Of Jason White Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 4:35 PM To: Compact Macs Subject: Floppy Question? I know you're not supposed to use 1.4 M floppies with 800K drives (even with the tape over

Floppy Question?

I know you're not supposed to use 1.4 M floppies with 800K drives (even with the tape over the hole trick). But what I'm confused about is disk images. If I have an 800k image can I copy that to 1.4m floppy in a 1.4m drive? Thanks, J White Buy American S.O.S. Save Our Steel -- Compact M