Burning from X to 8

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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
When I burn a cd it doesn't work in Mac OS 8. It just pops the cd back out. I'm using Toast 5.2. Is this because 8 is to old to support the CD-R format?

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  • Reply 1 of 3
    overhopeoverhope Posts: 1,123member
    You're not burning HFS+ disks, by any chance? OS 8 can only read HFS
  • Reply 2 of 3
    stoostoo Posts: 1,490member
    The upgrade to 8.1, which can read HFS+ disks, is free. If you try to read a HFS+ disk in an 8.0 and before machine, shouldn't there be a file (presumably on a small readable partition) that tells you that the HFS+ disk can't be read or has that been dropped?



    Did you check the "Install Mac OS 9 drivers" checkbox in the Disk Utility application?
  • Reply 3 of 3
    der kopfder kopf Posts: 2,275member
    The trouble is, Toast 5 won't let you burn old HFS disks from OS X. So there is hardly a way to do what you want. The best thing would be to burn an ISO 9660 disc, choosing to allow Macintosh names (a checkbox in the "Layout" tab, or something similar). I can't imagine OS 8 not being able to read those.
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