- #Emulator mess force mac to boot from floppy how to#
- #Emulator mess force mac to boot from floppy install#
My thanks in advance to anyone who can help. Some of the animation has color issues in some of the BMPs/XPMs - i.e.
#Emulator mess force mac to boot from floppy install#
Although I have at least a dozen Norton Utilities Emergency Disks I could not locate the one needed for this Mac, so I hunted down an image and then spent a couple of hours trying to create a bootable floppy disk from it. You can find PC emulators for all computer platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac.) If you are new to DOS, we recommend you use an emulator to install and boot. An LS-120 Superdisk drive is NOT a regular floppy disk drives but is actually treated as a SCSI device and you should map the floppy to the. I have attached the Testdisk log file as a Zip. I decided it was time to boot from a Norton Utilities Emergency Disk and see if it could mount the problematic disk and make the needed repairs. If booting from Mac boot floppy, make sure that the first Mac floppy disk device in the dialog box is mapped to the PC's A: drive (or B: drive depending on how your PC maps the floppy disk drives). I believe that it may have another partition that was added by a (pre-Boot Camp) Windows emulation program that I used to use but other than that just the one partition.īasically, I'm throwing myself on the mercy of the experts and hoping someone can at least get me started in the right direction. The Drive was partitioned however it came from the factory - Testdisk identifies it as EFI GPT. I really don't want to mess things up more than they are by trying something inappropriate. I have looked at every example I can find but none of them look anything like what I am getting at least once you get past the first few levels of menus.
#Emulator mess force mac to boot from floppy how to#
I really don't know how to proceed! I apologize for my ignorance but I am not sure if I should be trying to Fix A Boot Sector, Recover a Partition or what and in what order. I ran Testdisk from both CD and USB Stick startup drives since it won't boot from the damaged drive but ran into problems with the Arrow keys ceasing to function a couple of levels deep into Testdisk - mundane but a problem I have now plugged the iMac into my Mac Mini in Target Disc mode and am able to complete the initial run through of Testdisk.
Disk Utility "fixed" it but it will not mount. It died suddenly without warning, probably from a power outage. Hello - I am attempting to recover the main hard drive on my 2006 era iMac running OS X 10.6.8.