Recent content by Donald

Ahhhhhh, ok. Thank you a bunch!!

I have two partitions on my hard drive now. I've copied the files from my boot partition to the 2nd partition. It's running 6.0.7. Can I now upgrade ONLY the 2nd partition to 7.1 or 7.5.3? Then use System Switcher to boot between the two setups? I love my system 6.0.7, but have found more...

Well, the Google University comes thru again. It made no sense to me why the drive would not work on cold boots. The Ebay seller said it was a pull from an Apple, but I'm thinking, not so much! In one of the programs, it stated that it was IBM PC formatted before I initialized it. With...

OK, today's update, of sorts. I found out why I can only get this to work in 7.0.1. It's because of the "Mount Everything" control panel. It's system 7 only :( . The drive is there under 6, but I have no way to partition or format it without it being mounted. Using "Mount...

Carved out some time after work this morning to try some more things out. Yes, I was aware of the Apple-branded drive issue with HD SC Setup. I'm using a "patched" version that did see the drive .... once I booted into 7.0.1. :I All this time, I had thought it was ok to run that under...

OK, before we moved to a new house (yeah, nothing good ever starts that way), my IIsi was last booted around 3 years ago. it has a 40MB Quantum ELS in it. Kinda got tied up with other stuff. Now, I'm ready to sort thru some 100 Disk Doubler-ed floppies and it won't boot. On startup, I get a...