Format external hard drive mac to remove trojan horse

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And then: the System 7 desktop on an adorable little 9вЂі color screen. With all the mysteries solved I re-extracted the internal drive, copied a new System 7.1 with the appropriate Enabler, and put everything back together. The Color Classic needed System Enabler 401. The internal System wasnвЂ™t booting because with System 7.1 you needed specific System Enabler files for different models of Macs. The external drive wasnвЂ™t working because it was a 4GB drive, and in that era you needed a 68040 or PowerPC based Mac to read drives larger than 2GB. Time to call it a day and resume troubleshooting tomorrow.Д®ventually I figured out the issues. I asked myself how badly I wanted a working Color Classic, took a break, and had a few drinks ( etc). I was stuck with a Mac which only wanted to boot off the internal drive, containing a non-working system. I tried the System 7.1 and System 7.6 Disk Tools floppy disks, those too got ejected. No dice, the Mac would not boot off the external disk. Since removing the internal drive was difficult I formatted another hard disk, installed System 7.6.1, and connected this in a case to the external SCSI bus.

#FORMAT EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE MAC TO REMOVE TROJAN HORSE SOFTWARE#

Strange, System 7.1 was the original software which came with this model.

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Once ready I copied a working System 7.1 install from a Mac IIci to the disk, then installed the drive back in the Classic.Д¬hime, whir, happy Mac face (yay!), then an error: The version of System 7.1 installed on this drive will not work with this Mac.

#FORMAT EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE MAC TO REMOVE TROJAN HORSE MAC OS#

Mac OS Standard (HFS) format is required, 68k Macs canвЂ™t read Mac OS Extended (HFS+) disks. I took the case off, laboriously extracted the old SCSI hard drive, and formatted a new drive. Ah, it just needs a new startup disk, that I can handle. The Color Classic emitted a few slow beeps, then displayed the blinking folder with question mark. I pressed the keyboard switch and CHIME, the Mac powered up! Even experienced Mac folk sometimes forget the basicsвЂ¦ I had forgotten that this old model, like other Macs of that era, use both the physical power switch and the soft power switch on the keyboard. When mentioning this to the eBayer who sold me the board, he suggested my ADB keyboard or cable might be bad and the Mac wasnвЂ™t getting the power up command from the power button on the keyboard itself. A faint whine from the unit, but no other chime or activity.Д«ummer. I put in the new board, turned on the power switch at the rear of the machine, andвЂ¦ nothing. The designers of the Mac Mini should be forced to learn from these systems. The Color Classic, like the Performa 6400 & PowerMac 6500, has a wonderful slide out logic board design: remove a rear case panel and just pull the whole unit out. As part of the arrangement I sent my old non-working board to the seller for him to repair and resell, so a good deal for us both. After losing a few auctions to last minute eBay вЂњsnipersвЂќ (I really hate this tactic), I found another board listed with a Submit Offer and arranged to purchase it for a fair price. Working Color Classics sell for about $300 on eBay, but logic and power supply boards sell for around $100 each. Recently I decided it would be cool to see if I could get things running, but I didnвЂ™t want to spend too much money on the task. Still having lots to do with my move I put the Mac on a closet shelf and let it sit for a few more years. The logic board was corroded and missing a few pieces. The unit did not work, it had been sitting for too long in a salty humid environment. I had recently bought a house and she knew I collected old Macs, so she bought the system for me as a housewarming gift. After a four year on-and-off process (mostly off), I finally have a working model in the Vintage Mac Museum, though it took some effort to resurrect.Д«ack in 2008 a friend of mine found a Color Classic sitting unloved in an antique shop down in Florida. Why would anyone want an underpowered machine with such a small screen?ДЇast forward twenty years and this little underpowered Mac has become a pleasant reminder of simpler times past. Putting a color screen into the original compact Mac case always seemed an obvious step, but by the time this model was released in 1993 the Mac II line had been out for several years and Apple was beginning to ship the Quadra/Centris 68040 based systems. The Color Classic is one of those Mac models which I remember appreciating when it was current but didnвЂ™t feel it was worth the money.

Format external hard drive mac to remove trojan horse