Create Disk Image of Japanese Disk?

[mdeverhart]

I have a 3.5” MO disk with a 7.5.3 Japanese installation, as well as some other software. I think it’s either the original install media for my MO drive, or a copy of it, as it includes the B’s Crew formatting software?

What’s the best way to create a good image of this disk? When mounted under my English install of Mac OS, all of the file names are somewhat garbled (assume it’s a text encoding and character issue). It doesn’t successfully boot on my 7500 - I get the black screen that (I assume) says that it doesn’t support that machine. I need to see if it’ll boot on my Centris 650. I tried installing the Japanese language packs on my 8.1 install to see if that would properly display the file names, but it didn’t make a difference.

Will Disk Copy 6 create a proper image of it if I run DC6 on my English install? Or is my best bet to boot it and use DC6 while running the Japanese install?

Any help is appreciated!

 

[Phipli]

I have a 3.5” MO disk with a 7.5.3 Japanese installation, as well as some other software. I think it’s either the original install media for my MO drive, or a copy of it, as it includes the B’s Crew formatting software?

What’s the best way to create a good image of this disk? When mounted under my English install of Mac OS, all of the file names are somewhat garbled (assume it’s a text encoding and character issue). It doesn’t successfully boot on my 7500 - I get the black screen that (I assume) says that it doesn’t support that machine. I need to see if it’ll boot on my Centris 650. I tried installing the Japanese language packs on my 8.1 install to see if that would properly display the file names, but it didn’t make a difference.

Will Disk Copy 6 create a proper image of it if I run DC6 on my English install? Or is my best bet to boot it and use DC6 while running the Japanese install?

Any help is appreciated!

Disk Copy shouldn't mind what language it is in, but it will copy the partition and not the whole disk including its drivers and ability to be bootable.

If you want a full copy I'd use dd on a modern mac or linux, but I'm not sure what is the simplest way (I'm sure there is a better way than dd, but it is always installed).

 

[mdeverhart]

Ahh, good point, I’d forgotten that DC won’t do a full disk copy. Unfortunately, I don’t have any modern machines with SCSI interfaces.

Anyone have any suggestions for making a full disk copy on classic Mac OS? Otherwise it might need to wait until I can get a working A/UX install on my Centris.

 

[olePigeon]

I think Toast should be able to do it.

 

[mdeverhart]

I think Toast should be able to do it.

I’ll give that a shot, thanks!