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techknight

techknight

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Someone gave me a bootable CD several years ago. It was called Apple Legacy Recovery CD. Had all the system OSes on it, all the apple software, it just had a bunch of stuff. for 68k and early power macs. it had the network diskette, and all kinds of stuff that apple had on their site. plus some.

I still have the CD, but the problem is, over the years it has developed scratches, and media damaged, etc etc. so its partly to mostly unreadable. it had OS 0.85 up to OS 8.1 and all kinds of other stuff.

Does anyone know what I am talking about? or know where i can get a new copy?

 
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naa. it wont work becuase most of the damage is on the CD-Rs silver side. but there is scratches on the underside.

 
Is that an OEM disc, or something that someone burned for you?

If it's real, I need to find one. :D

Edit: Oops. I guess we posted at the same time. Either that, or I am an idiot and overlooked the last post. Disregard.

 
Nothing too surprising. This was a disc given by Apple to service providers to restore any machine's OS. I've had copies of it before.

 
well the reason I created this thread to begin with, I wanted to know if anyone has the same disc that they could make an ISO of.

No, its a burnt copy. I picked it up years ago from someone in the macworld of things.

 
I cleaned it up a little bit. (scratches remain). it will read all the way up to about 536megs of 649 before it starts getting errors.

 
Yeah, I have multiple sets of the Recovery CD sets, all of them missing the legacy disc! I would love to have a copy of the legacy disc, though.

 
You could get DiscDr.... It fixes scratches in disks. They have different variants that all do the same thing like DVDDr, GameDr, and DiscDr.

 
You could get DiscDr.... It fixes scratches in disks. They have different variants that all do the same thing like DVDDr, GameDr, and DiscDr.
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Not if the bits are actually gone. Yes, there's error some correction, but it's necessarily finite in capability.

 
well i made an ISO. there was about 30 to 60 blocks that my sony couldnt read.

but im going to the basilisk emulator, ALL of the system software in the macOS folder reads perfect :-) thats the most important part. also the boot portion of the CD reads fine. most of the errors are somewhere in the apple software A-Z.

 
Ok. this is extrodinarily odd. I went into the emulator and copied/pasted everything from the CD to a 700mb HFV file and it actually copied with no read errors reported in macos. the CD did get hung up half way in a little bit, but it actually copied without giving an error. while the ISO i copied gave all kinds of errors.

Soo, because of this, i just made it into a bootable HFV file as if it were the CD, so you can just burn a CD from the HFV file or however you do it. im uploading the 700mb HFV to my FTP server in england, and i will send you a link to grab it.

 
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