Re: wiping the drive of quadra 650

2009-05-18 Thread tortoise
On May 16, 5:54 pm, AJ wrote: > Then, I need to make a floppy. I have an intel mac and so I can't use > Disk Copy (which requires Classic). So, I think I need to use 'dd' > and do something like this: > http://lowendmac.com/brierley/08pb/classic-mac-boot-floppy.html > The restore tab in os

Re: wiping the drive of quadra 650

2009-05-17 Thread Dark_Mac
Amy, This should work for you. Make sure you get download disk tools #1 as your system has a SCSI drive in it. Let me know if you have trouble with making this disk and I will create it for you for the cost of shipping, a buck or two via 1st class mail. Regards, Mike On May 17, 2009, at

Re: wiping the drive of quadra 650

2009-05-17 Thread AJ
oops, as a followup- the drive setup link below turns out not to be a bootable image. It looks like this disk tools image: http://main.system7today.com/articles/tutorials/disktools.html might be what is needed. On May 16, 7:54 pm, AJ wrote: > hi, > > I would like to wipe the drive of a quadra

wiping the drive of quadra 650

2009-05-16 Thread AJ
hi, I would like to wipe the drive of a quadra 650 running system 7.5.3, prior to giving it away. I believe I can do this using 'Drive Setup'; however, the original system floppies are long gone. It looks like I can get the 'drive setup' s/w from here: http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Sup