   Fried Mac Classic
  So. My project lately has been to get my old Mac Classic working. Before I relate my adventures, let me get the specs out of the way so you know what I'm talking about:68000 processor 8MHz1 bit color40MB SCSI drive1.4 internal floppy2MB RAMSystem 6.0.3 on ROMSo... all was good in the world until one day years ago, the HD stopped responding. I'd get that "question mark disk" symbol at startup with no familiar HD noise. First it did it sporadically (presumably needing a warm-up), but then it stopped altogether.Recently I found I could start the system from the ROM chip. I started it up in an attempt to recover the HD, but it was nowhere to be found. It did have enough juice to play Risk, though-- and that can only be a good thing. However, I still have a plethora of old Mac software that needs attention.So I started looking around, and found out that Apple offers their old OS's for free. Hopefully, I could do a format/reinstall and the HD would be good again. After a download, I saw that it was in .BIN format (a floppy disk image). I tried in vain to extract the needed data from my Mac emulator, but a Google search reveals that Mac disk imaging tools support a specific filetype (.DMG).Does anyone with more Mac experience know what the next steps should be? I have a pretty good Mac emulator that supports 680* processors. It's free from ARDI, in case you were curious.   
  Buy and connect an external HD instead? :s   ;  No mac knowledge but isn't .BIN a cd image? (try daemon tools or even winrar)   ;  You need Stuffit Expander (from Aladdin) to unpack the .bin file.   ;  judging by what you've said it sounds to me like the harddrive has died of old age.I've got a 40Meg external harddrive for my Atari STe and it started doing much the same thing, no sound on boot up, some times I had to hit it or switch it on or off to get it going.If thats the case then you are going to need to replace the hardware, never mind the software...   ;  Your SCSI cable is probably old. I replaced the one in a Mac LC of that vintage not too long ago.You need a 50-pin Centronics flat SCSI-2 or SCSI-1 cable.Either that, or the disk has seized from sticktion. Take it out and hit it over where the central column of the platters would be, GENTLY, with the heel of your hand.You can reinstall the OS but I think the hdd has gotten old and probably needs a good beatin' or replacement. The Classic supports SCSI-1 drives up to and including 4GB which aren't hard to find, but you'll need to upgrade your OS to at least version 7.5 to address all of that.I'm not sure how you'd be able to make the boot floppies. I believe you have to use Disk Copy on classic Mac OS. I'm sure there are some emulation tools for it.Go ask on applefritter.com's forums.   