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Post #8 by NJRoadfan
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryPowerPC
Post DateSat, 2 Nov 2013 - 23:42
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/dead-hard-drive-symptoms.29206/
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The reason why it didn't work was because the drive was formatted with HFS+, which is PPC only.
Can't 68040 machines boot off of HFS+ partitions if they have MacOS 8.1 installed? By default, HFS+ aware versions of Drive Setup create the partition in a HFS "wrapper" that loads the driver in machines that lack HFS+ support in ROM. It also includes that dummy partition that mounts with the text file called "Where are my files?" If the drive was setup with OS X's Disk Utility, it won't create the wrapper or install the required driver partition for classic MacOS.

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