Old System Disks

Good evening.
I woud like to fire up my old original 128k Mac that was updated to a Mac 512. Does anyone know where one can get a copy of the system disks, system 2 as well as MacPaint and MacWrite?
My kids will never believe what the Mac was and where it has come from. Plus, I am a bit nostalgic and want to run it again.
Appreciate any assitance.

You will find OS 2/Finder 1.1 sea.hqx(fitting on 400k disk) on the site provided by Grant Bennet-Alder here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=719561&tstart=0

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Cannot delete Flash32_11_6_602_180.ocx from an old system disk

Hi, I am running a Windows 8 64 bit system with the most current version of Flash installed, whatever that is, since I blindly accept whatever update Adobe sends to me. My problem is that I cannot delete the Flash32_11_6_602_180.ocx file from an old system disk where I have deleted everything else in the Windows folder except the Flash32_11_6_602_180.ocx file.
I have seen very similar posts by Krischu on November 27, 2013 "Cannot delete/remove Flash32_11_9_900_117.ocx" and by Gdstuart on January 22, 2014 "How to delete Flash32_11_9_900_170,ocx," and I have tried the "takeown" method and the FileASSASSIN method suggested by MikeM to both of those posts, but my Flash.ocx file just won't go away.
I am the only user of this PC, and my user account describes me as an administrator, but I keep getting the "You need to provide admistrator permission to delete this file" when I try to delete it.
Does anyone know how to delete this file without doing what Krischu did by loading a Ubuntu system?
Thanks for any thoughts!

Well Pat, I definitely do filter what Microsoft tries to load on my system, for example, their insistence in trying to sneak in Bing. Either way, I keep my system up to date constantly.
Do you understand that the file I am dealing with is on a separate disk from my system disk? I don't see any way that the OS would automatically delete files that are not part of the current OS.
I took the disks from my old PC and installed them inside of my new PC. The old system was Windows 7 32 bit, and my new system is Windows 8 64 bit. As I said, there is only one user on my new system, me, and I am the administrator, so there is no "original Windows Administrator password" other than the one that I use every day. The only thing that I can think of is that the file is linked to my old admin user name from the W7 system, but even if that is the case, then why wouldn't the "takeown" method give me ownership?

My Windows 7 Professional desktop system hard disk got corrupted and I took the opportunity to install an SSD for a new system disk and reinstall Windows. The system is up and running on the SSD, with my old system disk now used for storage as it is stil

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If you have the two allotted activations already and one was lost on the hard drive that failed then you need to contact Adobe Support thru chat and ask them to reset your activations.
For the link below click the Still Need Help? option in the blue area at the bottom and choose the chat option...
Serial number and activation chat support (non-CC)
http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/service1.html ( http://adobe.ly/1aYjbSC )

Finder hangs on mounting old system disk as a external USB

Ok, I have an old system disk which was in a mac book pro that died, it ran snow leopard. I kept the disk as a storage device in an external enclosure. Up until updating to Mountain Lion I had no problems using the disk, I have removed most of the original OS folders, except User which I was trolling through slowly for old files. I also keep an old iPhoto library there as well. Now since updating to 10.8, whenever I mount that disk finder and just about anything important(system Preferences, Activity monitor, Disk Utility) hang until I must do a hard reboot. What can I do to continue using this disk without erasing it? I have tried to stop spotlight from indexing but like I said, everything hangs with in minutes of mounting this disk. Terminal relaunch commands have no effect on Finder, though it continues to run, as do Safari and Mail.

The next time you have the problem, note the exact times when it starts and ends: hour, minute, second.
If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the page that opens.
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left.
Scroll back in the log to the time you noted above. Post any messages timestamped during that interval – the text, please, not a screenshot.
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
DO NOT INDISCRIMINATELY DUMP THOUSANDS OF LINES FROM THE LOG INTO A MESSAGE. If you do that, I will not respond.
Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Edit it out by search-and-replace in a text editor before posting.

Getting data from old system disks

My Mac Mini was blown up by a lightning strike. Blew the Ethernet port.
I have a new machine and the drives from the old one. Borrowed a cradle from a friend. The drives mount.
I can see and copy files from folders I made on the drives but the User areas appear to have no files.
There were Images in iPhoto and documents in iBooks.
I am guessing it is a permissions thing...
How can I get my files of off the old system disk?
Thanks
SGC

I doubt this is a permission issue, but if it is, you can resolve it as follows. Select the volume icon in the Finder and open the Info window. Click the padlock icon in the lower right corner of the window and enter your administrator password when prompted. Check the box at the bottom marked
Ignore ownership on this volume
Close the Info window.

Sandboxing old system disk on new machine?

Hi,
my question is a fairly simple one, but somewhat convoluted, although I'll try my best to word it clearly:
I just bought an '09 MacPro and stuck in 3 extra 1TB HDD's. I partitioned the 4th drive in two sections of 500GB each. On one of these partitions I want to clone the system drive of my old '07 iMac, the other partition will be used for Bootcamp.
I will use the iMac's HDD clone as an alternative boot disk, occasionally.
I suspect that there are some iffy things on my iMac, since power-down used to be near-instantaneous but now takes almost 20 seconds. That happened just overnight, BTW. Not a gradual process as a result of accumulating bloat, I think.
The one thing I want to avoid, is any sort of malware creeping into my new machine because I cloned my old system drive onto the new one. Is there any way in which I can "sandbox" the cloned boot disk and restrict that system from accessing/recognizing/affecting the other disks?
I basically want to run them as two entirely separate systems, even if they use the same CPU/RAM/GPU.
Any sort of input will be appreciated, thanks.
PS: what is that F8 thing again, where you use the other computer as a target drive?

zephonic wrote:
I just bought an '09 MacPro...one of these partitions I want to clone the system drive of my old '07 iMac...I will use the iMac's HDD clone as an alternative boot disk, occasionally.
There are likely no hardware drivers on the iMac clone configuration that will allow you to boot the newer Mac with.
Clone as a archive to access files, but likely can't boot, almost positive of that fact.
The only chance in heck is if the OS X you installed on the old Mac has the hardware drivers for the newer Mac. Say a 10.6.3 Snow Leopard retail disk for instance. Grey disks or factory installed OSX on the old Mac configuration? Forget it.
I suspect that there are some iffy things on my iMac, since power-down used to be near-instantaneous but now takes almost 20 seconds. That happened just overnight, BTW. Not a gradual process as a result of accumulating bloat, I think.
You can hold c boot the iMac off the 10.6 installer disk and simply install OS X over the installed verison, then immediatly Software Update. This replaces OS X only, not your files or programs, might cure your issue.
Back up your user file folders (Music, pictures etc) to a external drive and disconnect before doing anything.
If your still having issues with the iMac after resinstalling OS X, if your hard drive has enough room (full hard drives slow down a machine, look in Activity monitor) you can create a new user and log into that and see if your problems magically disappear.
You can also get a Firewire cable and adapters (Firewire 800 to 400) hook the two Mac's together and T boot the iMac's hard drive to the desktop of the newer Mac, run a ClamXav scan, grab choice files and so forth, no need for a clone which you likely can't boot anyway.
The one thing I want to avoid, is any sort of malware creeping into my new machine because I cloned my old system drive onto the new one. Is there any way in which I can "sandbox" the cloned boot disk and restrict that system from accessing/recognizing/affecting the other disks?
Well you likely can't clone as it won't boot anyway. So since your not running the OS on the clone on your new machine, code can't execute if it's on there.
Far as I know there are no "hopping" malware for OS X that runs simply by connecting a infected media. OS X warns you of any new programs it hasn't seen previously before allowing it to run.
If you T boot and jsut extract your choice files, run a ClamXav scan, your likely going to be just fine.
Just don't transfer the old programs from the old Mac and run them on your newer machine.
I basically want to run them as two entirely separate systems, even if they use the same CPU/RAM/GPU.
But differnet hardware and no hardware drivers, so I'm almost positive it won't work at all.
PS: what is that F8 thing again, where you use the other computer as a target drive?
Hold T and boot the Mac you want's hard drive to appear on the desktop of the other, you need Firewire cable and adpater if one is one 800 and the other is 400. (defaults to 400 speeds.)
Good Luck.

Old system disk setup into a Windows 8 storage space

I have a old 2TB Windows system disk. How do I prepare the disk so that it can be added as a drive into Windows storage space?
I have already deleted all but on partitions (except the system reserved partition) but Storage Space management still cannot see the new physical drive that can be added.

Hi,
The disk added should be un-formatted/un-partitioned drives, please make sure the disk has no partitions, and then add it again.
For storage space, here are some more information:
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New machine with old system disk????

Hi
I've got a first generation Mac Pro and my new 8 core arrives tomorrow. Can I pull out the system disk from the quad core and put it into the new Octo? Will leopard reconfigure itself to work with the new hardware?
Many thanks
Nick

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
No. The license for the quad core machine limits the use of the quad core software to a quad core machine. Secondly, even if you did manage to bypass the restrictions of the firmware of the new machines, the drivers are different, and kernel panics, and non-upgradeable systems may persist afterwards. Macs have always in general can only run the system they shipped with and newer systems up to the limits of their hardware. If you must use an older version of an operating system for a software, find an alternative on:
http://guide.apple.com/
http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/
http://www.macupdate.com/
contact the vendor that is behind on their software development, or buy a used or refurbished Mac * which supports the operating system in question until you can upgrade all your software to be compatible with the operating system that ships with the new Mac. Sell the newer Mac unless you have need for software that will only run on it. Use my Identify your Mac FAQ* to determine the age of the machines you are looking for.
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I want to migrate my system disk to a new, larger, SSD.

I want to migrate my windows 7 system disk to a new, larger, SSD. My Photoshop CS5 is on the old system disk. Can I clone the old SSD to the new one and the just deactivate the CS5 install on the old SSD and activate it on the new, cloned, SSD?
I'd like this to be as painless as possible so I was going to use Acronis. My recent experience with an apple product has convinced me that "brainless" is the new modality in software......
Thanks,
Grover

I think Acronis will easily let you achieve your goal.
Theoretically you shouldn't need to deactivate/reactivate, but I would do it anyway - just to be on the safe side.

Restoring mail after a crash from original system disk

I recently had a system disk crash. It was not hugely terminal - I can still read the contents of the drive, I just can't boot from it.
I have installed a new copy of osX on my computer and so I have an installation running and can see the old system disk as a hard drive on the finder.
I would like to retrieve my old mail files. Can I do this?
Alas time machine had a disk failure shortly before my system disk crash, and so I cannot restore from that backup. It never rains, but it pours.

I agree with Akuma. It is definitely not Toshiba related issue and you should try to check some Microsoft forum and try to find final answer.

Cold migration of old LDoms with slice-based system disks - not possible?

We have a couple of older T5120s that we would like to upgrade both the firmware and LDoms software on.
Currently they both run LDoms 1.2; we'd like to go to 2.0 or hopefully 2.1.
cas2:1:1006 [root] # ldm -V
Logical Domain Manager (v 1.2_patch)
Hypervisor control protocol v 1.4
Using Hypervisor MD v 1.1
System PROM:
Hypervisor v. 1.7.4. @(#)Hypervisor 1.7.4.a 2009/09/21 08:25\015
OpenBoot v. 4.30.4 @(#)OBP 4.30.4 2009/08/19 07:23
We thought we would clear out our other "sandbox" T5120 (with LDoms 2.0) and migrate the client LDoms in the machines to be updated over to the sandbox, so if anything went wrong we could clear out the old 1.2 machine and then re-migrate the LDoms back over to it.
Well, it turns out the client LDoms on the 1.2 system were made with paired slices as the system disks instead of files :-(
vdisk0@casdev c1t0d0s3
vdisk1@casdev c1t1d0s3
vdisk0@casray c1t0d0s1
vdisk1@casray c1t1d0s1
In one of the client LDoms it has (as you would expect, given this setup)
NAME STATE FLAGS CONS VCPU MEMORY UTIL UPTIME
casdev active -n---- 5000 12 4G 0.1% 414d 18h
DISK
NAME VOLUME TOUT ID DEVICE SERVER MPGROUP
vdisk0 c1t0d0s3@primary-vds0 0 disk@0 primary
vdisk1 c1t1d0s3@primary-vds0 1 disk@1 primary
The control LDom for these client LDoms has 2 disks and slice 0 of each disk (~ 20 GB) is used for the control LDom, and there are these other slices (slice 1, 3, ... also each ~ 20 GB) for the client LDoms.
The target "sandbox" system we wanted to migrate to also has 2 disks, but slice 0 of each is a single, disk-spanning partition - since we're using files as virtual disks for the client LDoms that were previously on that system (since wiped out), there was no need for multiple slices.
I'm guessing that with this setup there is no way to even do a cold migration of the old LDoms 1.2 client LDoms to the newer LDoms 2.0 sandbox system, short of a complete reinstall of the sandbox to create a similar slice-based setup. :-(
(Unless it involved somehow re-slicing the control LDom's disks and making identically-sized partitions to match the old system's and then - somehow - "dd"'ing the source system's client LDom disk slices over into the target system's)
Am I right?
Edited by: Riot Nrrrd™ on Oct 28, 2011 3:30 PM

I'm guessing that with this setup there is no way to even do a cold migration of the old LDoms 1.2 client LDoms to the newer LDoms 2.0 sandbox system, short of a complete reinstall of the sandbox to create a similar slice-based setup. :-(
(Unless it involved somehow re-slicing the control LDom's disks and making identically-sized partitions to match the old system's and then - somehow - "dd"'ing the source system's client LDom disk slices over into the target system's)If you are not using SAN-disks, then it is a bit difficult to do the migration. If you are using ZFS on LDoms 2.0 sandbox, you could try to create ZFS volumes for guest domains and send data on those volumes from LDoms 1.2 system, after creating guest domains from exported XML configurationg files.
Does this sound tryable solution?

System Disk Name Change - Restore Old Files?

The name of a friend's main system disk was accidentally changed some time ago. The backup sets from both the old name and new name are still in TM under the same computer name. When we look at the backup sets they appears as (the leading dots are just to show the folder hierarchy since consecutive spaces are deleted):
Backup.backupsdb
..computer_name
....2009-01-01-timecode
......Macintosh\ HD
....2009-06-01-timecode
......New\ Disk\ Name
When we go in to TM to restore, we can see the backup sets that match the current disk name but not the ones with the old disk name.
How can we go about restoring files that existed when the disk had the old name? Selecting "Browse Other TM Disks" does not show the backup sets with the old disk name.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Ed

OK, here is the whole story as I understand it (this is a friend's iMac).
The drive was originally named "Machintosh HD". There are backup sets going back to August, 2008 where the only folder under the date folder in Backups.backupdb is named "Machintosh HD".
In late August, 2008, the internal drive was renamed " `1| ". The only folder in the date folders in Backups.backupdb is named " `1| ".
Two weeks ago we installed a new, larger internal HD. At that time, we discovered the problem with the drive name and renamed it "Machintosh HD". We are now able to restore from any backup where the folder in the date folders in Backups.backupdb is named "Machintosh HD".
For the time period from late August, 2008 - August, 2009 TM greys out the dates for the backup sets. It will not allow us to restore from them.
Prior to renaming the " `1| " drive, we could restore from any backup set between late August, 2008 - August 2009. We were not able to restore from the backup sets prior to August, 2008 where the name was "Machintosh HD".
It appears that TM wants to see a directory that matches the internal drive name in order to allow a restore from it.
I'm sorry for the confusion on the names. I have been using Unix systems for years and automatically include a \ when I type a file or directory name that includes a space.
Ed

Is it possible to get a system disk for my old iMac without the receipt?

I use an iMac at work and it's really slowing down. (10 minutes at least to open any application) I have 3 GB of ram and use only a quarter of my hard drive space. I've looked everywhere for the startup disk to no avail. I've used TechTool Deluxe and it says that the directory needs repair. When I used DiskUtitlity last, it says that the hard drive needs repair and to restart with the system disk and use Disk Repair. If anyone has any thoughts on this matter, I'm all ears.

No receipt is needed assuming they are still available for your vintage machine. All you need is a credit card and the machine's serial number. Then call AppleCare and if they are available they will ship a replacement set for a nominal cost.

How do I install all my old programs and data from an old system folder after I have reinstalled the same OSX system after a crash?

The system is OSX10.5.8 Leopard on a 2009 imac. A new system was installed from the installation disks and the original system saved to a folder.
I need to use my Adobe programs, rescue my email, i-tunes and iphoto data. The disk utility indicates that my Time Machine back-up disk is damaged and I don't want to take a risk of having Time Machine erase my hard drive and try to reinstall the exact system existing at the time of the crash. There was over 650 gb of stored files that I was copying and removing from the drive at the time it crashed. The total size of the original system file is still about 650 Gb.
I would prefer to go back in Time Machine and only rescue the programs as most of the files have been copied to external hard drives, but I can't access the back-up hard drive from the new version of the Time Machine. Or by I don't want the Time Mchine to start copying the new operating system which would include all the data in the old system file. Time Machine was working fine at the time of the crash.

No, the disk was backed up with time machine a few hours prior to the crash. I was unable to open the computer when I tried to restart it- got a grey screen with the spinning disk- after a few minutes the screen would go black and would reboot continuously, but not load any images or programs. I started the computer from the 10.5.4 installation disks and checked both the time machine external hard drive and the Imac internal drive with the disk utilities. Both showed as damaged --the internal drive and permissions were repaired, but the external drive (time machine back-up) was damaged and not repairable by disk utilities. I don't believe that the external drive for Time Machine was connected to the computer at the time of the crash as I was copying files to a different hard drive drive. And I was not having any problems with the TM back-up drive prior to the crash.
I accessed the Imac internal disk by firewire (as a target disk) and copied as many data files as I had room for on my external hard drives available. And I deleted quite a few files from the imac internal drive (mostly just jpegs, duplicate tifs, etc--nothing that was used by i-photos, i-tunes or the Mail program).
Then I installed a new OSX10.5.4 system from the installation disk and the old system was moved to a folder on the hard drive. I previousy had had the option to reinstall the complete system from Time Machine when I connected that drive and booted with the installation disks with the C key depressed. But it didn't seem like a good option because I was unsure of the condition of that external disk and whether it would be able to reinstall my data correctly, once it had erased my internal hard drive.
I'm considering buying some new external hard drives and backing up the present system to time Machine (so I'll still have my old data in the old system folder). And then I would try using the old Time Machine back-up to try to reinstall the sytem previous to the crash. That back-up would reinstall about 700gb of data and operating software and programs which sounds like a lengthy back-up. Since I have never used Time Machine to do a full reinstallation (I've only used it for individual files), I'm reluctant to do anything rash.
I'm a professional designer (with a deadline) but I can still use my Illustrator and Photoshop by opening them from the old system folder and saving the files to an external drive. So it's not neccessary to do anything hasty except to delete some of the excess art and document files that were causing the computer to run slowly and the Adobe programs to crash when I tried to save my work. I have quite a few books on tape in the i-tumes folder which is probably talking up tons of space but I don't where the i-tunes files live.
Thanks for any help. Peggy
Message was edited by: peggy toole

Non system disk error or disk error when turned on

I have a BIG problem with my laptop, it doesnt load my operating system! :dead:
I have a 100GB hard drive in my laptop and it was working perfectly fine until a blue screen came up and turned my laptop off!! I turned it back on and it came up with a message saying: ''non-system disk or disk error; Replace and strike any key when ready'' Before that, I have the RAM of 256MB . The RAM themselves had a test and showed no problem at all. When I did go into bios, it didnt give me an option where my laptop hard drive could do a self test, when it should have. So i decided to buy a new hard drive which was 160GB seagate. I put it into my laptop and had my Windows XP CD ready to put into my CD drive to install. BUT...........the same message came up ''non-system disk or disk error; Replace and strike any key when ready'' and didnt read my CD. It keeps doing it now and doesn't read anything from the CD SOMEONE PLEASE...............HELP!!!..................!!!! Does anyone know what I am talking about? If so, please help. Thanks

I kind of know but we really need to know what kind of laptop you are working on here. Seems like it is an old one with XP and 256 megs of RAM.

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