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68kMLA Troubleshooting 28 posts Jun 9, 2008 to Jun 25, 2008

#1 Mon, 9 Jun 2008 - 02:58 68kMLA

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?

#2 Mon, 9 Jun 2008 - 03:31 68kMLA

I took a screenshot of the root dir of the CD. maybe someone would recognize it. (like i said, its half readable, as the CD just booted the emu).

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/2154/maccdut4.jpg

#3 Mon, 9 Jun 2008 - 12:27 68kMLA

Try Brasso furniture polish. 3 very light coats, left to dry in between each coat. Rub in and outwards from the centre, not around and around.

#4 Mon, 9 Jun 2008 - 14:30 68kMLA

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

#5 Mon, 9 Jun 2008 - 23:18 68kMLA

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

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

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

#6 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 - 02:51 68kMLA

Wow, take a picture of the disk itself, both sides so we can see if it is fixable.

#7 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 - 04:04 68kMLA

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.

#8 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 - 18:24 68kMLA

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.

#9 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 - 18:30 68kMLA

there is a small damage spot on the actual media surface, but its a small pinhole, probably not enough to affect but a few sectors.

here is where the REAL damage is:

http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/1952/dsc00015cc2.jpg

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/6277/dsc00016dj9.jpg

#10 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 - 22:05 68kMLA

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.

#11 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 - 22:36 68kMLA

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.

#12 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 - 23:17 68kMLA

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

#13 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 - 23:52 68kMLA

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

Not if the bits are actually gone. Yes, there's error some correction, but it's necessarily finite in capability.

#14 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 - 01:52 68kMLA

If someone does have the disk, make an ISO! This would help a lot of people here.

#15 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 - 02:58 68kMLA

#16 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 - 03:03 68kMLA

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.

#17 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 - 04:17 68kMLA

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.

#18 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 - 12:37 68kMLA

here it is:

http://www.0ki.info/legacy.rar

#19 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 - 19:52 68kMLA

how do I open this HVF on a mac?

#20 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 - 01:44 68kMLA

it works in emulation. from what i read years ago, you can burn a CD from an HFV.

#21 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 - 06:02 68kMLA

how do I open this HVF on a mac?

Under OSX (10.4.11 on mine) after you unstuff the .RAR file, change the resulting Legacy.HFV extension to .ISO. When you double click on it, OS X knows how to convert the HFV format to ISO. The disk opens right up.

#22 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 - 13:58 68kMLA

yeap you can do that, or when you change it to an ISO, you can open Disk Utility and open the ISO file, and burn it

#23 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 - 22:45 68kMLA

UH OH! Install disk 8 for Mac OS 7.5.3 is bad! Should of tried this before installing on my PB 180C! Anybody have a good copy of this?!

#24 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 - 22:57 68kMLA

I think 7.5 is good enough for your PowerBook 180c.

#25 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 - 23:39 68kMLA

I think 7.5 is good enough for your PowerBook 180c.

I have been running 7.5.3 on my PowerBook 150 and it is great, the 180 is pretty much the same thing but with a (Wonderful!) color screen.

#26 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 - 23:52 68kMLA

Well, it is easier to install 7.5, plus it takes up less disks.

#27 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 - 23:55 68kMLA

Well, in an hour, the transfer of a disk image of 7.5.3 will be done and I don't want to stop it.

#28 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 - 23:57 68kMLA

...and with 7.5, it should take less than an hour...

But oh well. I don't see an advantage of installing 7.5.3.