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DOS FDD Imaging Utility for 5150/5155/5160
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This is one I wrote, and it handles all of the standard DOS formats from 160KB to 1.44MB:
http://brutman.com/PCjr/downloads/DskImage.zip
It's a bit better to use on older floppies because it is more aggressive about retrying bad sectors so that you don't lose them.
Mike
http://brutman.com/PCjr/downloads/DskImage.zip
It's a bit better to use on older floppies because it is more aggressive about retrying bad sectors so that you don't lose them.
Mike
glitch
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Since this utility creates raw disk images, they can then be dd'ed out from a modern Linux box, correct?
Absolutely! And you can go a step further and use the mount with loopback (-o) to take a peek inside of the image right from the Linux machine. I usually use the readonly option as well to avoid corrupting anything, but you could mount it read-write and fix something if you needed to.
Lots of imagers can create a standard hex dump of a floppy, and I used to use one called DITU. But a lot of them gave up too quickly - you would be amazed at how many errors can be resolved by doing a few more retries. (In extreme cases I clean the floppy drive heads and try reading again.)
Lots of imagers can create a standard hex dump of a floppy, and I used to use one called DITU. But a lot of them gave up too quickly - you would be amazed at how many errors can be resolved by doing a few more retries. (In extreme cases I clean the floppy drive heads and try reading again.)
glitch
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My main reason for using WinImage...it will at least let you choose to abort/retry/ignore when it finds something it's not happy about. I'd come across a disk imaging suite at some point that retried sectors up to 1000 times, but I found that to be irritating as it would waste all day attempting to recover what was probably entirely lost, and then you have to clean the drive afterwards. I'll probably be switching to your utility for my DOS disk imaging needs!