Having obtained the necessary disk images, download and install Winimage. As far as I'm aware these disks can only be made with an older Mac. Why only with a superdrive for the Mac Plus and Mac SE? Unfortunately it's practically impossible for PC 3.5 inch drives to write in the 800k format used by standard Mac Plus and SE drives.

Macintosh Classic (You can boot System 6 from ROM with this one anyway).

Macintosh SE (only with a 1.44 MB 'superdrive').

Macintosh Plus (but only with a 1.44 MB 'superdrive').

You need at least 4MB RAM to be comfortable with it and a hard drive is a must. The following machines can use 6.0.8 or 7.0.1 BUT best to save 7.0.1 for the SE/30s and above.

Apple Inc has made these installation images available to the public domain so there shouldn't be any copyright issues. Unzip the images into appropriately named directories. That being the case I've put the image files in a format which will allow PC users to make system disks directly via the instructions below. Many of the images on the web are designed to be unpacked and copied ON A MAC, which is not much help when the Macintosh you may have just bought is not up and running. This can be a real headache for PC users. Getting Installation disk images for vintage Macs A windows XP or greater PC with a 1.44 MB drive.

It explains some generic aspects of disk imaging and why, even if you DO have a good bootable disk, it may not work.

Please click to READ THIS INTRODUCTORY PAGE FIRST.

If you have found this page directly from an Internet search (as opposed to a link from my disk imaging introduction page) you have most likely missed some important information. Making vintage Macintosh boot or system disks (and getting other software) from disk images

1.44 mb floppy disk image creator