But these are mostly hobbyist-level projects and would be somewhat involved, I think. They do very low-level magnetic imaging of the disk's surface, and then use hefty modern software to reconstruct the bytes. That will give you an exact copy of your disks, hopefully.Īnother option would be to consider something like (with no particular endorsement) the Kryoflux, Flu圎ngine, Applesauce or similar. By installing OWC MacDrive on a Windows PC, you make it become Mac aware and can access Mac-formatted drives easily. The USB drive should be able to read a 1.4 MB HD floppy. With machine like your Classic II which has a 1.4 MB Mac drive, if you can get it running, you should be able to image the 800K disks using a utility like Disk Copy, then copy those image files to a 1.4 MB floppy.
But classic Macs are about the only system that can easily read them. Even if the 4TB drive has been formatted in Windows’ NTFS (New Technology File System) format, then your Mac should still be able to read it, though it won’t be able to write to it. If that is the kind of disk you want to read, any pre-iMac Mac with a standard 800 KB or 1.44 MB Macintosh drive should be able to read them. They are unlikely to exist as 800 KB disks as used on the classic Macs use a proprietary on-disk format requiring variable speed drives. I am not aware of any standard USB 3.5" drives that can read the 800 KB double-density Mac format. Most that can will only read 720 KB disks formatted for IBM PCs. Many USB floppy drives will not read double-density (720 / 800 KB) disks at all.
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