Need a tool to copy files to a floppy image

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Need a tool to copy files to a floppy image

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Hi. I'm looking for a command-line tool to copy files (from HD) to a "formatted" floppy image. The image is FAT12, so I need a tool that let me copy one file to that image preserving file system. Rawrite (or dd) doesn't help since I have to specify sectors and that is not what I need

I'm using Windows XP, some suggestion?
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I can't recommend any "Windows XP" specific utilities, but.. mtools should work, you may have to compile it in "cygwin" though.

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Mtools +1
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mtools and if you *must* have a GUI, try VFD. VFD mounts as a virtual floppy drive (hence the name) allowing you to use your image as a virtual floppy.
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posman wrote:Hi. I'm looking for a command-line tool to copy files (from HD) to a "formatted" floppy image. The image is FAT12, so I need a tool that let me copy one file to that image preserving file system. Rawrite (or dd) doesn't help since I have to specify sectors and that is not what I need

I'm using Windows XP, some suggestion?
What do you mean by "have to specify sectors"?

For dd you can do just "dd if=image of=/dev/fda" (assuming /dev/fda is the floppy device, not sure how cygwin names those) and Rawrite can similarly just write complete images to disk. You can specify sectors for dd if you want, but it's not necessary.
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Try mtools
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I doubt that Windows touches the already-existing part of the filesystem so it should be safe to copy from Explorer.

Hey, Combuster, any ideas on what he should use? :lol:
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Re: Need a tool to copy files to a floppy image

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There is many software(running under windows) to creat image or edit image,but most of them trail

  • 1.MagicISO
    2.WINimg
    3.floppy image creator 5



I invite you to take spin in this link
http://www.magiciso.com
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I have programmed something for windows XP, it can copy file to specified sector of device, or specified sector of device to file. Also has a HEX editor. It is still has some bugs I must remove and optimize the code. It can edit any volume you have, except CD and DVD (windows returns invalid function on write). Make sure that you select proper volume, because it can rewrite boot sector and filesystem sectors even on the HDD :wink:
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