Restore .dsk to an external HDD

[Jon183]

Hi everyone, I have a .dsk image for system 6 that I can use with mini vmac. I would really like to restore it to my external drive which I use with the plus, is there a way to do that?

 

[BadGoldEagle]

Do you have a floppy emu, a scsi2sd or a mac capable of running system 7?

 

[Jon183]

Do you have a floppy emu, a scsi2sd or a mac capable of running system 7?

no floppy emu yet, will get one probably next week, no scsi2sd but I have many computers that run system 7

 

[BadGoldEagle]

Ok. What you need to do is find a way (with a zip disk, a floppy emu, a file server, whatever really) to transfer that image to a system 7 compatible machine. Once that's done, connect your external hard drive to that mac, start it up, and open the image file with Disk Copy 6.3 (4.2 can't handle hard drive images, that's why you need system 7...). Once the virtual disk's mounted on the desktop, just drag and drop its contents to your external drive.

Getting a file from the modern world to a vintage mac is kinda tricky. A floppy EMU makes things really easy. I cannot recommend it enough.

Alternatively, you could put your Floppy EMU in HD20 mode and boot from that .dsk directly.