| I downloaded and installed WinImage 9.0 on my win98 computer. It has a floppy drive. I successfully wrote the img file to a floppy. Another issue occurred to me. My cd-rom drive is a SCSI external type. The new boot floppy has an fdconfig.sys and an autoexec‎.bat file. I'm thinking I need to add lines to both to recognize the SCSI drive when it boots. Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Bell network.
On 3/24/2017 5:42 AM, Dennis Fenton
wrote:
That is to be expected. A disk image is exactly that, a sector by sector image of EVERY sector on the disk. That includes those of the boot sector (includes the BPB-BIOS Paramter Block), 14 sectors for the root directory and 18 sectors for the two copies of FAT12. Those 33 sectors leave on a formatted 1.44MB floppy disk 2847 sectors (out of 2880 sectors of an unformatted disk). To write a floppy disk IMAGE to a floppy, you need a program that writes that image SECTOR FOR SECTOR back to the disk, not as a single file as you have tried. On Unix/Linux systems, the easiest way to achive that is to use the "dd" command or WinRaWrite on a Windows system (or rawrite if you have another DOS only system). I personally used for probably more than two decades by now a Shareware program called WinImage, which also does works nicely to create quickly images from floppy disks or CD-ROMs... Ralf
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