System 2 disk images, writing to floppy

[ctludlow]

Can someone help me understand what DiskCopy 4.2 is actually doing in my scenario?

I have downloaded the System 2, MacPaint and MacWrite images from this site to my Mac SE with 6.0.8: http://www.earlymacintosh.org/disk_images.html

In DiskCopy 4.2, when clicking the "Load Image File" button it sees the MacPaint and MacWrite images and displays them in the list to select. I can write these to floppy perfectly. However, DiskCopy does not display the System 2 image in the list so I can't even select it write to floppy. Any ideas?

 

[mcdermd]

It may be a Disk Copy 6 image file.

Or it may be missing it's resource fork. If so, you can try repairing it by copying the information from one of the other images in resedit.

 

[Mk.558]

Could be missing type/creator info.

Try opening it in DC 6.3.3. If you can mount it, you can then extract the contents and dump them into a new image file or directly onto a disk. The Guide in my signature has more info on doing this sort of thing.

EDIT: Checks fine on my end. DC 4.2 reads it with tag checksum $1A5A5D37, data checksum $D2F81640. 400K disk.

EDIT 2: The problem must be on the machine downloading the disk or the transfer method.

 

[onlyonemac]

Probably a wrong type/creator (had this before). Copy the codes across from the other images using ResEdit.