It may seem odd, but every now and then we may need to have a floppy drive connected to a virtual machine. The current version of magiciso supports fat12 disk image in format of 2. Creating classic mac boot floppies in os x low end mac. Floppy drive in your vintage macintosh not working. Need to get data off old probably mac formatted floppies. Due to physical differences between mac and pc floppy drives, 800k double density mac floppies can only be written by other vintage macs. Open your windows virtual machines configuration hardware floppy disk. Mass image compressor mass image compressor is easy to use a point and shoot batch image compressor and converter tool f. Using a floppy drive in a virtual machine is rare, but is usual for a license file or driver transfer for a custom element of an operating system installation. Create a disk image using disk utility on mac apple support. Use winimage to create virtual floppy disk by far the most popular strategy is to use a floppy image file. Winimage is a fullyfledged diskimaging suite for easy creation, reading and editing of many image formats and fileystems, including dmf, vhd, fat, iso, ntfs and linux.
Mac floppy drive mac original floppy drives, internal ones, as well as imation external units, for the older power macintosh systems as well as for the mac powerbook. I recommend trying copy ii mac, but not to make a disk image. A usb floppy disk from amazon like this one will likely be all you need. Rather, use it to successfully copy your original floppy disk to the floppy.
After completing to add and edit floppy disk image, click or button for saving to disk file. The apple disk utility can create floppy disk images for this purpose. But how do you point outputfile to the floppy disk. Because the mac does not include a physical floppy drive, and because vmware fusion supports floppy images only, you must use a usb floppy drive to create floppy images. Enter a filename for the disk image, add tags if necessary, then choose where to save it. Floppy disk drives for macintosh computers have an electric ejecting mechanism, so there is no eject button on macintosh floppy disk drives. When mac os x mounts a floppy disk called diskname, it creates a location for it at. Disk images in os x are a great way to back up, archive, or protect any file or folder on your mac os x. Disk images are files containing the complete contents of a floppy disk in raw form. Because the mac does not include a physical floppy drive, and because vmware fusion supports floppy images only, you must use a usb floppy drive to create. From floppies to hard drives, macdrive can handle almost any disk you toss at it. Creating bootable freedos dos floppy diskette img file for v86 on. Tools for creating disk images on mac plus retrocomputing stack.
In the name field, enter the name for the disk image. How to create a disk image of your mac startup disk. The need for creating disk image of mac startup disk. From the source dropdown menu select choose an image file. I wished someone would make a usb autoeject floppy drive, but now i have an older mac with a proper mac floppy drive so i dont worry about it. How to generate floppy disks for old macintosh computers. Well also share how to restore your startup disk by using the already created image file. To eject a disk, you need to turn on the computer while keeping the mouse button pressed until the disk is ejected. The disk image is an exact copy of a physical disk floppy, cdrom, hard disk, usb, vhd disk, etc. By the way, this is a great upgrade for old macintosh computers that allow an internal hard drive, as you will have a larger and faster hard drive than the original model. Diskcopy is apples tool that shipped with classic mac os. How to create floppy disk image on mac os x for msdos in. The floppy disk image will be mounted to windows as a floppy disk. And in the event that your mac disks is having a problem, our robust repair feature can fix basic disk issues.
This is the name that appears in the finder, where you save the disk image file before opening it. How to create a floppy drive image for a virtual machine. In the disk utility app on your mac, choose file new image blank image. For technical information about creating a restore disk image, see the apple software restore asr manual. Macdrive also includes powerful features that enable you to create and partition mac disks direct from your pc. Tired of hunting through the handful of good parts left on ebay.
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