Boot Mac II from 9 GB Drive?

Can't seem to do it. Here's what I tried: 1. I used DTK to create a single 500 MB partition on the external 9 GB. 2. Marked the partition Automount and Bootable. 3. Copied a "blessed" and known bootable 7.5.5 System Folder from another external hard drive (one that had not been to used to

Re: Boot Mac II from 9 GB Drive?

Thanks guys for all the ideas! I will give them a spin and let you know. (Is this a great list or what?) Dave Quebbeman -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start

Re: Boot Mac II from 9 GB Drive?

On Thursday, February 12, 2004, at 08:30 PM, Dave Quebbeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I got a 9 GB SCSI SE drive in an external case from work, used Hard Disk Toolkit to take it down to 2 GB partitions, and hooked it up to a Mac II with System 7.5.5. The drive mounts fine, reads and writes OK,

Re: Boot Mac II from 9 GB Drive?

Depending on what version of HDTK you used, you may have a option to make the partition "bootable". That might be the problem. John On Thursday, February 12, 2004, at 05:15 AM, Dave Quebbeman wrote: After copying over a system folder, I can't get the new drive to boot using shift+opt+cmd+de

Re: Boot Mac II from 9 GB Drive?

On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 09:15:58PM +, Dave Quebbeman wrote: > I got a 9 GB SCSI SE drive in an external case from work, used Hard Disk > Toolkit to take it down to 2 GB partitions, and hooked it up to a Mac II with > System 7.5.5. The drive mounts fine, reads and writes OK, but... Many old

Boot Mac II from 9 GB Drive?

Hello all, I got a 9 GB SCSI SE drive in an external case from work, used Hard Disk Toolkit to take it down to 2 GB partitions, and hooked it up to a Mac II with System 7.5.5. The drive mounts fine, reads and writes OK, but... After copying over a system folder, I can't get the new drive to bo