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Interesting problem. I have a Quadra 800, which is a super nice machine. I also bought two external hard drives. Unfortunately, neither of the external drives is mountable on the Quadra. The first external drive is an Apple External Hard Drive, 9GB. It won't open under System 7.5.1. So I tried System 7.6, which should have support for drives over 4 GB. No success. Then I tried the LaCie External Hard drive. It *mounts* under 7.6 but I just get a Readme file that says the drive is formatted under Extended HFS or something like that. It then informs me that I need System 8.1. The problem is I don't have System 8.1. And I don't think I can get 8.1 onto the Q800 without a good size external hard drive!
I don't mind reformatting the drives to HFS in partitions of 2GB or less, but I need to find out what goodies are on the drive before I format it. Could be some stuff I want to keep. Any suggestions on how to mount these drives under 7.6, or how to get 8.1 onto the Q800? Anyone have an 8.1 install CD?
I don't mind reformatting the drives to HFS in partitions of 2GB or less, but I need to find out what goodies are on the drive before I format it. Could be some stuff I want to keep. Any suggestions on how to mount these drives under 7.6, or how to get 8.1 onto the Q800? Anyone have an 8.1 install CD?