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Need a tool to copy files to a floppy image
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 12:40 pm
by posman
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?
Re: Need a tool to copy files to a floppy image
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 1:15 pm
by Brynet-Inc
I can't recommend any "Windows XP" specific utilities, but..
mtools should work, you may have to compile it in "cygwin" though.
This is all documented on the
Wiki..
Re: Need a tool to copy files to a floppy image
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 2:09 pm
by Combuster
Mtools +1
Re: Need a tool to copy files to a floppy image
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 3:58 pm
by pcmattman
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.
Re: Need a tool to copy files to a floppy image
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 6:23 am
by mystran
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.
Re: Need a tool to copy files to a floppy image
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 2:22 pm
by Combuster
Try mtools
Re: Need a tool to copy files to a floppy image
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 8:33 am
by Love4Boobies
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?
Re: Need a tool to copy files to a floppy image
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 9:06 am
by i586coder
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
Re: Need a tool to copy files to a floppy image
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 11:56 am
by Masterkiller
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
Link:
http://212.117.33.243/VolumeReader.rar