Macintosh Classic II help?

I am a computer nerd, and I have lots of old Macintosh computers. One of them, a Classic II, flashes an icon of a disk with a blinking question mark on it instead of booting up normally.

Is the hard drive damaged? What should I do to boot and/or repair it?

By the way, I have tried making "bootable floppies" via downloads or instructions from various websites. None have worked (out of around 10). The computer just ejects them. On the other hand, one homemade system 6.0.8 copy begins to boot (w/ happy mac) then shows a box which says that the version is too old for this computer.

Any ideas? My best idea so far is to somehow obtain a copy of the 7.0.1 "Disk Tools" floppy. None on eBay though.

Macintosh Classic II help?antivirus

I too enjoy vintage macs!

I wouldn't necessarily say that the hard drive in this unit is toast. Perhaps the operating system is just messed up. I know that apple used to give away the older operating systems on their FTP site, but that was ages ago...

Have you tried the applecare old software download page?

http://www.info.apple.com/support/olders...

They might have something you can boot with.

Good Luck!

Macintosh Classic II help?computer

The infamous disk with the question mark is what happens when the computer can not find a bootable disk in the system, be it an internal hard drive, external hard drive, CDRom, or Floppy.

Macs will scan all available disks for a bootable disk.

So, it does not necessarily mean that the hard disk is bad, just that it cant find a "system" on it.

You used to be able to download System 7.x from apple.
Did you look here http://www.info.apple.com/support/olders...

and here http://www.lowendmac.com/sable/07/0315.h...
Replace your battery.

Reset the PRAM

Rebuild your desktop...

See my answer to your other similar question.