Writing an HFS CD on Windows

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

I have a bunch of files I downloaded onto a Windows computer.
I want to use them on an old Mac (system 7) with a CD drive.

I would like to burn them to an HFS CD. All I could find was
a reference to a program which is now gone, called HFV explorer
and many comments that Nero (for Windows) would burn HFS disks.

I have Nero 5 and 7 installed and can't find an HFS option.

The tutorials all explain how to burn an already created HFS
image, none of them say how to create one except by using
HFVExplorer.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,

Geoff.

[M. Whalley]

Post by Geoffrey S. Mendelson
I have a bunch of files I downloaded onto a Windows computer.
I want to use them on an old Mac (system 7) with a CD drive.
I would like to burn them to an HFS CD. All I could find was
a reference to a program which is now gone, called HFV explorer
and many comments that Nero (for Windows) would burn HFS disks.
I have Nero 5 and 7 installed and can't find an HFS option.
The tutorials all explain how to burn an already created HFS
image, none of them say how to create one except by using
HFVExplorer.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance,
Geoff.

Burn using ISO 9660 format?? Which your Mac will read OK seem to recall
this is what I have done in the past..

I now use firewire drives...

Mike

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

Post by M. Whalley
Burn using ISO 9660 format?? Which your Mac will read OK seem to recall
this is what I have done in the past..

Thanks. I found that using the Apple CD ROM drivers I could read HFS disks
created on a Mac with Toast. This is with System 7.5 (original) on a Mac SE,
using an Apple 8x CD-ROM drive.

For some reason it would not read ISO disks created with Nero, or HFS
disks created with HFVexplorer. I found HFVexplorer, without help files,
on the Underdogs Abandonedware site.

I burned the CD with Nero.

Installing CD-ROM speed tools (a worthwile puchase I made almost 10 years ago)
I was able to read the ISO disks written by Nero. So it looks like I'm ok.

Geoff.

[David C.]

Post by Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Thanks. I found that using the Apple CD ROM drivers I could read HFS
disks created on a Mac with Toast. This is with System 7.5 (original)
on a Mac SE, using an Apple 8x CD-ROM drive.
For some reason it would not read ISO disks created with Nero, or HFS
disks created with HFVexplorer. I found HFVexplorer, without help
files, on the Underdogs Abandonedware site.

ISO support in System 7 is provided via the following system extensions:
Foreign File Access
High Sierra File Access
ISO 9660 File Access

Make sure these extensions are installed and enabled and your SE should
be able to read ISO discs.

-- David

[Chris Ridd]

Post by David C.

Post by Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Thanks. I found that using the Apple CD ROM drivers I could read HFS
disks created on a Mac with Toast. This is with System 7.5 (original)
on a Mac SE, using an Apple 8x CD-ROM drive.
For some reason it would not read ISO disks created with Nero, or HFS
disks created with HFVexplorer. I found HFVexplorer, without help
files, on the Underdogs Abandonedware site.

Foreign File Access
High Sierra File Access
ISO 9660 File Access
Make sure these extensions are installed and enabled and your SE should
be able to read ISO discs.

I also remember using <http://www.tempel.org/joliet/> to help read
discs with Joliet filesystem extensions.

Cheers,

Chris

[David C.]

Post by Chris Ridd
I also remember using <http://www.tempel.org/joliet/> to help read
discs with Joliet filesystem extensions.

Yes. Prior to OS 9, Mac OS has no Joliet support built-in, so long
filenames will be truncated to 8.3 without a third-party extension.

I think there's also a similar third-party extension for Rock Ridge (the
common UNIX method for putting long filenames on a CD).

-- David