Making a Disaster Disk


isaster disks are not the easiest thing in the world to make for those with Power Macs or System 7.5 or later. The system is simply to big to fit on a disk.

or those who have system 7.1 or earlier however, its a doddle. Simply make a copy of your finder and put it on the prerequisite disk. Then duplicate your system file and open the copy up. Chuck everything inside except the simple beep sound and put that on the disk too. This should do it.

ery rarely, this still turns out to be too big. Then you should use your system installer disk to install a Minimal system for your Macintosh only on the disk.

or System 7.5+ and Power Mac users, the above method with the system disks is best, the other alternative is to get hold of Norton Utilities and use its Startup Disk Builder. This will work for almost any Macintosh. For those who are still at a loss the best thing to do is if you have a CD drive, make sure you can get hold of either a bootable CD or a system CD alternatively, as a last resort, make a copy of the first installer disk.

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