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Post #1 by gbatch1
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Post DateSun, 11 May 2008 - 20:07
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/need-to-boot-healthy-500mb-hd-in-quadra-800.13151/
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Can someone help me? I've been using a Quadra 605 (running System

7.6.1) for 13 yrs in my music project studio. My hard drive crashed

last week so I need to reconstruct my setup. I have everything backed

up on zip disks, so I bought a Quadra 800 on ebay. It works

perfectly, but it was running system 7.1, so I tried to trade System

Folders to use 7.6.1 instead, but I must not have had the right System

Enabler for the Quadra 800, so when I restarted - it won't boot, AND I

don't have the right startup "disk tools" floppy for it. I can't get

it to boot from the Zip drive, even though I had the zip connection

(SCSI) working perfectly.

I guess I need to somehow buy a Quadra 800 - 7.x boot floppy from

someone, and then get the right enabler so as to be able to get it

morphed to 7.6.1.

I have tried to create a Disk Tools startup floppy with my old machine, but whatever floppy I put in the drive pops out right after I see the happy Mac icon.

Any help would be deeply appreciated. - - - Gary

mp.ls