Read Mac SE disks

I have some old disks formatted using a Mac SE.

Is there a way to read these disks on my pc or a current Mac?

The disks are labeled Macintosh 2SHD 1.4 MB disks and have old AppleWorks files on them.

I tried the software Macdisk, but it could not read the disk and said it needed to be formatted. I read on the Macdisk site that "MacDisk cannot read Apple Macintosh DD (400 KB or 800 KB) floppy disks. Apple chose to implement the GCR coding (Group Coded Recording) with a variable spindle speed to squeeze more data on the outer tracks of the medium. There are no software solutions to mimic that on the PC..." Is this the case here?

Thanks for any help.

 

Thanks for the thread link. It helped me learn some background on the problem.

I wonder if I can pick up an old PowerBook (i.e. 1400cs) with a floppy SuperDrive (that is HD) would I be able to read the floppy disks from my old Mac SE? I could then email the files to my current computer.

Any thoughts appreciated.

 

I ended up purchasing a PowerBook 1400cs with a floppy SuperDrive running OS 7.5.3. However, I still can't read the disks. The computer says that they need to be formatted.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

 

Some good news. I read on an Apple support page that sometimes older Macs formatted a 1.4 mb disk to 800 k. However, modern Macs would see the disk as 1.4 mb and try to open it as such and fail. The solution was to tape over the left hole at the top of the disk.

Now I can read all the disks.

The only problem I have is that 2 files give me an error when I try to copy it to the hard drive saying it can't be written because of "error of type 1,309."

Does anyone know how to work around this?