Does your question imply that, in wishing to transfer data from the Classic II to floppy disk, you have turned over a new leaf with respect to backups? Are you just unable to get to the desktop after startup? Or has the Classic II's hard drive carked entirely?
If the last is the case you are in dire straits. Can you not start up from the HDD? You can certainly start up the Mac from a floppy disk, but you cannot remove/unmount a volume that contains the active System in order to write to other floppies in the same drive. Starting up from the HDD and writing to floppy will help retrieve files for you, but as small a hard drive as 40MB is the equivalent of many floppy disks. Even if your HDD is working, your possible courses of action still all involve some expenditure before you can make backups:
an external HDD, system SCSI cable and terminator, or
an external 1.44MB floppy drive, and a bundle of floppy disks, or
transfer of the internal HDD to another Mac equipped with SCSI.
What exactly is it about the internal hard drive that prompts your question?
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If the last is the case you are in dire straits. Can you not start up from the HDD? You can certainly start up the Mac from a floppy disk, but you cannot remove/unmount a volume that contains the active System in order to write to other floppies in the same drive. Starting up from the HDD and writing to floppy will help retrieve files for you, but as small a hard drive as 40MB is the equivalent of many floppy disks. Even if your HDD is working, your possible courses of action still all involve some expenditure before you can make backups:
an external HDD, system SCSI cable and terminator, or
an external 1.44MB floppy drive, and a bundle of floppy disks, or
transfer of the internal HDD to another Mac equipped with SCSI.
What exactly is it about the internal hard drive that prompts your question?
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