writing boot sector to disk

[DigitalKhaos]

Greetings all,

I'm having a bit of a problem with John Fine's Partcopy. I'm using the syntax 'partcopy boot.bin 0 200 -f0'

It is return an error: Divide error.

The floppy disk motor or drive light are not going on at all, no activity whatsoever. I'm using a fairly new laptop which does not include a 3.5 floppy drive, so I bought an external usb powered drive.

Has anyone had any experience with this, or may have some words of advise?

I'd appreciate anything at all.

THanks all,
John

[bubach]

You could try and use rawrite for windows instead. It will write an image of any size to your floppy. And if you need to inlude more then the bootsector, for example if you have your kernel directly after it, try the command: copy /b boot.bin + kernel.bin image.img
before using rawrite.
HTH

[DigitalKhaos]

Thanks man, rawrite works perfectly.

Thanks again