Ahh OS 8. All the drawbacks of OS 9 with none of the benefits. Who needs a fast finder or USB mass storage support
Back in September of last year, I was given a B&W G3 tower, with the caveat that the original owner(a professor at school) wanted all of her data off of it. The most recent document on it were actually from 2012, but it was still running the original install of OS 8.5.5.
She went out and bought a 32gb flash drive for her data(overkill, as the hard drive was only 12gb-but then she didn't know that) and my plan was to just copy everything over to the flash drive. I knew it would take a while over USB 1.1, but just figured I'd set it up and let it run.
That's where my problems started...I plugged in the flash drive, and was informed that I needed to install the USB Mass Storage Driver in order to mount it.
I happened to notice that she had downloaded the USB Mass Storage Driver and left it on the desktop, so I attempted to run it-only to find that it required OS 8.6.
I didn't have my "box of disks" with me(where I keep updates and stuff like that handy) but had the 8.6 update image saved on my laptop so at least I didn't have to go digging around on Apple's website for it.
I proceeded to burn the 8.6 disk and then attempted to install it on the B&W...only to find that the optical drive was dead
At this point, I started thinking outside the box, and did what I should have done in the first place. I borrowed a USB-IDE adapter from our scientific instrument tech(I have my own, but didn't have it with me), then pulled the hard drive, plugged it into my laptop, and then plugged the flash drive in. I then just did a drag and drop-over USB 2.0 it only took a few minutes to copy the 4gb of stuff on the drive.
