open mac formatted floppy disks on windows

Standard PC floppy hardware is fundamentally incapable of reading 800K Mac floppies. I've only used it with 1.4MB disks though, I have no Mac-formatted 800K disks to try with it. Good Mac reference site: Reply 5 of 19, by xjas Suggested MacOS versions: Classic MacOS 8.2 or later, no later than OS X 10.4.11.Īvoid Intel-based Macs (basically everything after 2005). Be sure to buy a machine that includes the original install disks *for that machine* (the bundled install disks are machine-specific), or to pick up a retail version that goes with your system. a beige Performa series Mac or older PowerBook. If you want a Mac with a build-in floppy disk drive, you'll need to look for a Mac from before those Macs, e.g. You'll need to pick up a separate USB floppy disk drive (or SuperDrive) to be able to read your floppies, more precisely a model that was made specifically for Macs. None of the brightly colored PowerPC-based Macs (be it iMacs, eMacs, iBooks) include a floppy disk drive, nor do the PowerMacs and PowerBooks from the same era, AFAIK. Select Legacy Diskette B: and use the plus (+) and minus (-) keys on the numerical keypad to select the type of floppy drive to use.I'm looking to pick up a machine off of Craigslist or Ebay that could read these, what's my best/cheapest option? I'm thinking one of those garish crayola clamshell mac laptops from the late 90's should be a pretty safe bet.Select the virtual machine and select VM > Power > Power On to BIOS.If you added a second floppy drive to the virtual machine, enable the drive in the virtual machine BIOS.To connect the drive or floppy image file to the virtual machine when the virtual machine powers on, select Connect at power on.

If you selected the floppy image or blank floppy image media type, type the name or browse to the location of a floppy image (.

If you selected the physical floppy drive media type, select a specific floppy drive or select Auto detect to allow Workstation Pro to auto-detect the drive to use.

The drive connects to a blank floppy image (. The virtual machine uses a physical floppy drive.

Click Finish to add the drive to the virtual machine.

In the Add Hardware wizard, select Floppy Drive.Select the virtual machine and select VM > Settings.

Open mac formatted floppy disks on windows