Creating A Mac CDR Using A HDF

Method By Kristopher Bachtal


People with IDE CD Writers can burn pure HFS (Mac) CDs in Windows without access to a SCSI drive. Here's how: 

1.) Get Nero Burning Rom : http://www.ahead.de/en/Download.htm, install it, and reboot.

2.) Create a Hard Drive File under 650 MB using Fusion's setup.exe, Basilisk II's Disk tab or HFVExplorer.

3.) Use your Mac emulator to format the new hard file. 

4.) Copy all the files you need to the new hard file and lay it out just the way you want the CD to be. If you make the hard file bootable you will have a bootable HFS CD. 

5.) Shutdown the emulator and start Nero. 

6.) In Nero - Cancel - (not close) the wizard.

 

7.) Go the file menu and select Burn Image.


8.) In the open window that pops up choose to view all files then select the Hard File you just created and click Open. 


9.) Next a Dialog box pops up and tells you this is a foreign file format and asks you to set some options. Choose OK. 


10.) The foreign image settings window then appears. Under "Type of Image" choose HFS (leave the rest of the settings alone) then click OK. 


11.) Next the Write CD window comes up. Select the Burn tab. Make sure the "Write" checkbox is checked. Check the "Disc-At-Once" checkbox. If you don't use the Disc-At-Once option or can't (some writer don't support it) you should probably check the Finalize CD checkbox. I also uncheck the simulation check box but you can leave it checked if you want (It just takes longer). 


12.) Click Write (and keep your fingers crossed).

Once the writing process is complete, the disk will be ejected and you can try it on your Mac or Mac emulator.

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