Missing startup volume

Hello out there,
I'm working with an old PowerMac 7100/66 AV with G3 upgrade. I exchanged the internal CD-ROM against a newer one (this is supportet by Apple) and replaced the battery. And now the PM wouldn't startup any more, showing the nice flashing questions mark during startup.
Norton Disk Doctor told me the the driver on the SCSI startup disk is corrupted and needs to be reinstalled.
Is there anybody who can send me the floppy disk image of an MacOS 9 emergency startup floppy, including the first aid application? My eMail address is [email protected]
Thanks
Regards from Germany
Ansgar

Hi, Ansgar. Even stripped down to its barest essentials, OS 9 is too big to fit on a floppy diskette. You may have to put the original CD-ROM drive back into the Mac, start up from your OS 9 installer CD, and run Disk First Aid from that to repair the hard drive. Or start up from an emergency or Disk Tools floppy containing some older version of the Mac OS. I don't recall whether OS 8.1 was too big for a floppy, but that was the first version to use the Mac OS Extended (HFS+) file system, so if you can find a Disk Tools floppy for that or any later version, it should enable you to make any needed repairs.

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