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Replacing the floppy drive cable did not help. :(

Hi, I was successful today with a PowerBook 170. I have three of them, all with one or two broken hinge mounts.  Today I used the cover of a dead PB 145B, equipped it with the PB 170 hinges. I put little MoS2 Oil on the hinges and cleaned them. The active matrix display of PB 170 fits and now...

My PowerBook 170 has a weird floppy problem: the PB can boot with any fitting floppy disk - even with system 6.0.8 disk from Macintosh garden.  When I boot with it's hard disk and then put in a known good disk, Finder does not recognize, that there is a floppy disk: no sound, no floppy disk on...

Hi, as posted earlier here, there is a new - easy to use - Mac OS X software available, which helps to send old Macintosh files from new Macs to old Macs via OrangePi mini computers without damaging resource and data fork: It's called: OldHex 3.0...

Hier an Overview in pictures. I tried it successfully today.

Thank you so very much! 

I had similar problems with my 5x0 PowerBooks with SCSI2SD and SCSI2CF adapters (copy errors, crashing) and thought it was a virus.  It was not. It was the formatting software Silverlining:

After 4 years (I had a personal tragedy in the meantime) I got out all my 3400c, Kangas and 5300.  Omg, only 1 of them was working again.  :disapprove: A PB 3400c survived and I put in a mSata SSD and installed all volumes new.  When I nearly finished this after some days, the 3400c showed a...

omg. :( I never owned a PC myself (only Apple since 1992) but had some in my company and friends often asked me to help.  I don't forget a policeman who asked me to "repair" his PC because he got the "police trojan". So funny! :D BTW: I didn't try much and formatted the drive. :)

Great! It works perfect and simple! :D

Thsnk you so much!

Hi, AppleShare IP 5 and 6 are not allowed to be installed on PowerBooks (PPC 603, -e, -ev). Is there a known way to fool the installer? Thanks. 

There were so many viruses 20 to 30 years ago. 

It's no Virus ! I found the solution, it's LaCie Silverlining 5.8.2 together with SCSI2CF and SCSI2SD. With Resorcerer I found the string of the warning (first post) in Silverlining 5.8.2 which I used to format the "drives".  The reason was, that Silverlining drivers allow booting of...

This PB 540c got the error too.  :disapprove: But with other files too.  :disapprove: One of two SCSI2SD PB could be repaired by DiskWarrior, all 3 partions are ok now.  It can even boot from PCMCIA card in card cage.  But the one SCSI2CF PowerBook can't be repaired so far, but booting...

Thank you. I have a big file archive because of 28 years of collecting Mac software and yes I have both.  In addition I have a big collection of Mac viruses (protected!) which I didn't touch for 20 years.  :sadmac:

I should tell you that these 2 PB 540c are equipped with a SCSI2SD HD, the one without failure is equipped with a SCSI2CF HD. I copied a complete System 8.1 volume from this one SCSI2CF PB 540c to a CF card in a CF2PMCIA adapter and from this CF card to both SCSI2SD PB 540c without errors...

I made a Scan with Disinfectant and Techtool Pro 3: no viruses found. 

It first appeared several times with RamDoubler 9.img when be copied it from CF-Card to HD. The RD 2 disk is ok, I had to put a tape on it, because it always opened, when I put in a slightly bent floppy and I needed it closed for a 2.0.2 RD update. 

I'm using Macs since 1992 (SE/30) but never got this strange alert when copying a RamDoubler 9 image from different CF cards to a harddisk or inserting the original RamDoubler Disk  2: "A disk has been remove that is currently in use. Please put it back!!! Failure to do so may result in loss of...