Macintosh SE

[krasnyoktyabr]

Hi there, I just got out the old Mac SE to see that there was a flashing question mark inside a floppy disk when it was trying to boot up. I did a little research and found out that the system files were corrupted or deleted. I tried puting in the system disk, and the happy mac came up before it spit out the disk and went back to how it was before. Does anyone know what I can do to recify this problem?

 

[RatVega]

Try zapping the PRAM.

 

[krasnyoktyabr]

Alright, I tried to zap it by holding down the command key, option, p, and r right after turning the computer on, but it never made the startup sound repeatedly and brings up the same icon. Is there another way to zap it?

 

[toolbox]

Its still advising it can't find a valid boot drive. Does it have a HDD or is this unit just come with a floppy drive?

You can now download 7.5.3 from the apple website. If you can get it onto a floppy disk you will be able to boot from it

http://download.info.apple.com/Appl...System/Older_System/System_7.5_Version_7.5.3/

This is the read me file from the website there

Name: System 7.5 Version 7.5.3

Version: n/a

Released: January 30, 1999

Requires:
System 7.5.3 requires an Apple Macintosh or PowerBook computer with at
least 4MB of RAM. Note: newer Macintosh and PowerBook computers
require versions of System software higher than version 7.5.3 in order
to operate. See TIL article 8970 for information on which CPUs support
System 7.5.3.

Description:
This is the North American English version of System 7.5 version
7.5.3, which includes the following system updates: System 7.5 Update
2.0 and System 7.5.3 Revision 2. For further information on System
7.5.3, please consult the Technical Information Library.

Instructions:
This software is available as 19 parts of a self-mounting Disk Copy
image. Download all 19 parts to your hard drive and then double-click
on the first part to mount the compressed disk image on your desktop.

Note that self-mounting Disk Images require Mac OS version 7.0.1 or
later. If you are using a version of Mac OS prior to this, you can
download the System 7.5 Network Access floppy disk and boot your
Macintosh from that to use this software.

 

[Mac_Max]

The SE came in versions with 800Kb floppy drives, 1.44MB floppy drives, and with/without hard drives. Unless it had it's hard drive removed, floppy-only equipped models would have two FD drives. If it's an 800KB version (1.44MB versions had "Superdrive" or FDHD on them) that would explain why your diskette was spit out. Also remember that the floppy has to be HFS formatted and not MFS, AppleDOS (ProDOS), or HFS+ formatted as the SE and System 7 have no idea what that is (although there's no reason why Mac OS should let you do this since it has a minimum partition size higher than 1.44MB). I'd recommend downloading System 6.0.8 in case your SE only has 1MB of RAM.

 

[krasnyoktyabr]

It has one floppy drive and an 800K internal HDD.


And the computer doesn't meet the requirements there. It only has 1MB of RAM, not 4.

 

[toolbox]

You can download system 6 here

http://download.info.apple.com/Appl...n/Macintosh/System/Older_System/System_6.0.x/

 

[krasnyoktyabr]

OK, would any computer be able to replicate the data and have it usable in the SE?

(any computer with a floppy drive atleast)