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| From | Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.system |
| Subject | Re: Retrieving data from prehistoric disk image |
| Date | 2015-05-03 20:59 +0000 |
| Organization | Miskatonic U |
| Message-ID | <slrnmkd33r.2ed.g.kreme@amelia.local> (permalink) |
| References | <agisaak.spamblock-03A6E5.13373903052015@shawnews> |
In message <agisaak.spamblock-03A6E5.13373903052015@shawnews> Ymir <agisaak.spamblock@gmail.com> wrote: > I know it's a longshot, but any help would be appreciated... > I have some ancient files which I need to retrieve. Unfortunately, they > are stored on equally ancient disk images. By 'ancient' I mean > pre-System 5. The images are 400K, so I assume they are MFS rather than > HFS disks. > Obviously, they will not mount in OS X. However, I cannot get them to > mount using DiskCopy or ShrinkWrap under SheepShaver either. Do you have a 400K floppy drive (or an 800K floppy drive)? > hdiutil does seem to think they are valid images, but containing no > mountable file systems. > Sadly, I cannot for the life of me recall which software was used to > create them. Some have a .img suffix whereas others are .image. The > creator and file types are both blank so no help there, but I suspect it > must have been something other than DiskCopy since I *think* it used > .dsk/.smi. Compactor and Crap-- er, Stuffit I believe both created image files with .image extensions. > Any suggestions for software which could be run in OS 9 under Mac OS 9? No, I doubt that will work. You will need to go back at least to 7.x, and maybe to System 6. I know for a fact that Mac OS 8 cannot handle the 400K MFS format. Hmm.. That might not apply to iamge files, now that I think about it. For reading physical disks though, you would have to be running pre-Mac OS 8 software. On the other hand, early versions of OS X *will* read MFS disk images if you happen to have the right tools from Apple which you probably cannot get anymore. I recall getting some data from a 400K or 800K diskcopy file back around 10.3 or 10.4 after scouring the Apple Developer page for an MFS utility. -- I WILL NOT EXPOSE THE IGNORANCE OF THE FACULTY Bart chalkboard Ep. 8F15
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Retrieving data from prehistoric disk image Ymir <agisaak.spamblock@gmail.com> - 2015-05-03 13:37 -0600
Re: Retrieving data from prehistoric disk image JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-05-03 16:08 -0400
Re: Retrieving data from prehistoric disk image Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-05-03 16:27 -0400
Re: Retrieving data from prehistoric disk image Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-05-03 20:59 +0000
Re: Retrieving data from prehistoric disk image billy@MIX.COM - 2015-05-04 08:06 +0000
Re: Retrieving data from prehistoric disk image Ymir <agisaak.spamblock@gmail.com> - 2015-05-04 08:28 -0600
Re: Retrieving data from prehistoric disk image Ymir <agisaak.spamblock@gmail.com> - 2015-05-05 11:36 -0600
Re: Retrieving data from prehistoric disk image Ymir <agisaak.spamblock@gmail.com> - 2015-05-04 08:24 -0600
Re: Retrieving data from prehistoric disk image D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2015-05-28 18:08 +0000
Re: Retrieving data from prehistoric disk image Fred McKenzie <fmmck@aol.com> - 2015-05-04 14:06 -0400
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