To create a ProDos data disk boot your Apple with the ProDos 8, v4.0.2 Utilities Disk.
- At the Main Menu for System Disk 4.0 choose 1. System Utilities
The Apple II System Utilities Main Menu is divided up into four sections whick are:
- Work on Entire Disk
- Work on Individual Files
- Work on ProDos Disks Only
- Other Options
Under Work on Entire Disk, choose Format a Disk
The System Utilities will ask ‘Where is your disk?’ and give you the option for ‘Slot and Drive’. Press Return.
The utilities will show the default slot and drive. Either accept the default by pressing Return or type in the new numbers for slot and drive and then press Return. (Usually, but not always, the disk controller is in slot 6.) With one disk drive you would be using slot 6, drive 1.
The utilities will ask you to ‘Select the Operating System’, just press Return to choose ProDos.
The utilities will then ask ‘Enter the volume name’ followed by the volume name of the utilities disk (/UTILITIES. . . . . .). Go ahead and change it to what you want. You could use /DATADISK.
Once you’ve choosen the volume name, press Return. A box will pop up on the screen telling you to put a disk in the drive you choose above. Put the disk in and press Return.
If there might be something on the disk, the utilities will ask ‘Do you want to destroy…? Only choose Yes if you are sure there is nothing important on the disk. If you say No, you get to start over back at the main menu.
The utilities will tell you they are ‘Formatting…’ and then tell you when they are done, then you press Return to continue back to the main menu.
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Last Updated: 27-Jul-13 at 11:28PM
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