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Posted by: techknight on 2008-06-08 18:58:00
Someone gave me a bootable CD several years ago. It was called Apple Legacy Recovery CD. Had all the system OSes on it, all the apple software, it just had a bunch of stuff. for 68k and early power macs. it had the network diskette, and all kinds of stuff that apple had on their site. plus some.

I still have the CD, but the problem is, over the years it has developed scratches, and media damaged, etc etc. so its partly to mostly unreadable. it had OS 0.85 up to OS 8.1 and all kinds of other stuff.

Does anyone know what I am talking about? or know where i can get a new copy?

Posted by: techknight on 2008-06-08 19:31:10
I took a screenshot of the root dir of the CD. maybe someone would recognize it. (like i said, its half readable, as the CD just booted the emu).

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/2154/maccdut4.jpg

Posted by: Bunsen on 2008-06-09 04:27:08
Try Brasso furniture polish. 3 very light coats, left to dry in between each coat. Rub in and outwards from the centre, not around and around.

Posted by: techknight on 2008-06-09 06:30:02
naa. it wont work becuase most of the damage is on the CD-Rs silver side. but there is scratches on the underside.

Posted by: aphetica on 2008-06-09 15:18:02
Is that an OEM disc, or something that someone burned for you?

If it's real, I need to find one. 😀

Edit: Oops. I guess we posted at the same time. Either that, or I am an idiot and overlooked the last post. Disregard.

Posted by: benjgvps on 2008-06-09 18:51:19
Wow, take a picture of the disk itself, both sides so we can see if it is fixable.

Posted by: techfury90 on 2008-06-09 20:04:28
Nothing too surprising. This was a disc given by Apple to service providers to restore any machine's OS. I've had copies of it before.

Posted by: techknight on 2008-06-10 10:24:12
well the reason I created this thread to begin with, I wanted to know if anyone has the same disc that they could make an ISO of.

No, its a burnt copy. I picked it up years ago from someone in the macworld of things.

Posted by: techknight on 2008-06-10 10:30:22
there is a small damage spot on the actual media surface, but its a small pinhole, probably not enough to affect but a few sectors.

here is where the REAL damage is:

http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/1952/dsc00015cc2.jpg

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/6277/dsc00016dj9.jpg

Posted by: techknight on 2008-06-10 14:05:01
I cleaned it up a little bit. (scratches remain). it will read all the way up to about 536megs of 649 before it starts getting errors.

Posted by: Anonymous Freak on 2008-06-10 14:36:03
Yeah, I have multiple sets of the Recovery CD sets, all of them missing the legacy disc! I would love to have a copy of the legacy disc, though.

Posted by: Christopher on 2008-06-10 15:17:22
You could get DiscDr.... It fixes scratches in disks. They have different variants that all do the same thing like DVDDr, GameDr, and DiscDr.

Posted by: tomlee59 on 2008-06-10 15:52:55
You could get DiscDr.... It fixes scratches in disks. They have different variants that all do the same thing like DVDDr, GameDr, and DiscDr.
Not if the bits are actually gone. Yes, there's error some correction, but it's necessarily finite in capability.

Posted by: benjgvps on 2008-06-10 17:52:13
If someone does have the disk, make an ISO! This would help a lot of people here.

Posted by: wood_e on 2008-06-10 18:58:37
+1

Posted by: techknight on 2008-06-10 19:03:06
well i made an ISO. there was about 30 to 60 blocks that my sony couldnt read.

but im going to the basilisk emulator, ALL of the system software in the macOS folder reads perfect 🙂 thats the most important part. also the boot portion of the CD reads fine. most of the errors are somewhere in the apple software A-Z.

Posted by: techknight on 2008-06-10 20:17:12
Ok. this is extrodinarily odd. I went into the emulator and copied/pasted everything from the CD to a 700mb HFV file and it actually copied with no read errors reported in macos. the CD did get hung up half way in a little bit, but it actually copied without giving an error. while the ISO i copied gave all kinds of errors.

Soo, because of this, i just made it into a bootable HFV file as if it were the CD, so you can just burn a CD from the HFV file or however you do it. im uploading the 700mb HFV to my FTP server in england, and i will send you a link to grab it.

Posted by: techknight on 2008-06-11 04:37:13
here it is:

http://www.0ki.info/legacy.rar

Posted by: slomacuser on 2008-06-11 11:52:11
how do I open this HVF on a mac?

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