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Too late to edit but I found out that the second disk is actually the applications disk and the first disk is just Panther on its own. So I can use those two disks to get the original installation and then upgrade to Tiger.

I just realized I don't actually have the applications disk, only system software. So I would have to find that one and burn a copy.

It has an 80GB disk that's about half full. Haven't even looked at all of the contents yet to determine what all is on there...

I do have Tiger CDs so I could try the Archive and Install thing. I'm sure I don't have anything rare but reinstalling 40GB of software is a huge time commitment.

I have a pair of original restore disks that came with the unit which I assume are OS X Panther so they wouldn't work. This is my model of eMac: https://everymac.com/systems/apple/emac/specs/emac_1.25.html

So I got an eMac the other day with OS X 10.4.11 and it's fully functional except for the fact that most of the icons in the dock are ? icons that are non-functional. How exactly would I go about fixing this? This hard drive is packed with software and I don't currently have a way to back it...

I...kinda don't, is the thing. And I'm genuinely worried when I go to move the box the bottom is gonna fall out and my eMac is gonna get eCracked.

Snagged this boxed 1.25GHz eMac for free, fully working. https://imgur.com/a/BUxUxJo Unfortunately the box is severely water damaged so I'm debating whether I'm going to keep it...

Nice score on the 1.25GHz eMac! A lot of eMacs out there are sub-1GHz.

They're all worth getting, but the 550 is the most valuable.

I ended up fixing it thanks to an image provided by @IlikeTech. They gave me a 7.6.1 image that worked after being dd'ed to the card.

Okay, I started over, re-initializing the disk into two <4GB Mac OS Standard partitions using the OS 9 version of Drive Setup but otherwise using this guide: However, when I boot off a 7.5.3 Disk Tools disk my partitions don't show up. They show up just fine in OS 9 and OS X but on the...

Well...it didn't work. The dd-ing worked but it doesn't boot. I have a system folder and such on the SD card but it must not be blessed or something? When I boot off a Disk Tools disk there's nothing detected, and for some reason I can't get patched HD SC Setup 7.3.5 to fit on a Disk Tools floppy.

Alright, I'll have to try out dd with my iBook G4 (running Tiger) and see if it works. Either it works or it doesn't.

Well that's the problem I have, I have a .dsk hard disk image but I don't know how to turn it into a .img image and still have it work. I do have an OS X machine I could use dd with but then how do I initialize the SD card?

I wish there was an easier way to do this but I don't know how...not unless I could hook up a crossover cable to the Ethernet card and use that 7.5 network access disk to initialize and write to the SD card.

Well, I'll use this thread for something sorta related. I have a .dsk image of a complete 7.5.5 install with helpful programs added that I want to put on my SCSI2SD. However, the method I was given (use SoftMac to create and initialize an image file and then put the install onto it) isn't...

I can't edit the post...it turns out my SD card became corrupted somehow and wiped out all my hard drive partitions so I get to reinstall System 7.5.5 all over again. Yay!

I somehow messed up the boot partition on my SCSI2SD in my Color Classic and made it unbootable, so I figured I'd just use my external SCSI HDD with System 7.1 (and the required enabler) installed to boot the Color Classic and re-bless the system folder or whatever else I'd need to do to restore...

If you want a little bit faster CPU for the G3, I have a 350MHz one I'd send you for the cost of shipping.