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Volume Duplicator for Classic?

l008com

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I need to move a whole bunch of volumes from one drive to another. I know drag and drop generally works with classic, although the desktop folder is invisible. And the other problem i've been running in to, theres no way to know which desktop folder, on which drive, a particular file on your desktop is actually on. The desktop implementation in classic is very odd, I never realized that before. 

But anyway, if I could get OS X on here, I'd just use disk utility to duplicate all the volumes to a new drive, but I still don't have enough RAM to run X. So I'm stuck with classic apps. Anyone know of anything that can cleanly and easily do full volume duplication, HFS and HFS+?

 

Elfen

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Which OS are you using? Usually, the desktop files (2 for System 6 and I believe 3 for System 7) are on the main root directory of the hard drive.

Diskcopy on the Mac usually copies visible and invisible files from drive to drive. Programs like Utility Dog can find invisible and make them visible.

Also, just in case, it is better not to copy the Desktop files and let the Mac rebuild a new one; this way if your system is infected with a virus like WDEF, not copying and rebuilding your desktop files eliminates the virus. Desktop Files are not "System" files persay, every disk, volume, etc. formatted on a Mac will have them on their main root directory.

EDIT: If this is a Classic and not the Classic II, you should be able to boot the ROM Disk with Command-Apple-X-O. It is in System 6.08, and I believe a copy of Diskcopy (For System 6) should be on it. I could be wrong though... My memory is like a fine Swizz Cheese... Its full of holes.

 
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l008com

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When I said Classic, I meant classic versions of the OS, not the model of Mac named "Classic". As far as versions, I have a drive with many partitions and I'm running nearly every version of Mac OS/System. 

That said, how do you get Disk Copy to duplicate hard drives? I haven't been able to get it to do that. It seems to only be able to make disk images from volumes, not restore a disk image to a volume, or restore disk to disk directly?

 
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