Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 19:21:11 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] FD Image
In a message dated 1/14/03 4:05:10 PM Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > I've put together a boot floppy that lets me use a Sony PRD-650 CDROM > >drive > > > in DOS, with my L100CT. Because floppies are so prone to failure, I'd > >like > > > to create an image of this floppy and store it on a hard drive. Can > >anyone > > > recommend (free?) image-creating software? Thanks. > > Lee > > For the people like myself who are a bit technically challange, maybe you > could explain what the advantage of an image is in this case compared to > just copying the FDD files to a folder on your HDD, and then copying them > backk to another FDD. > > Matt (Dazed and confused yet again.) Well, thanks for the utterly misplaced confidence in my ability! My hopefully logical if incorrect deduction - anyone feel free to shoot me down here - was that the system files must be written to the beginning of the FD, and copying a directory full of files to a FD might not place those files at the beginning. Granted, I could make a system/boot disk, then copy everything else to it, but extracting an image to the FD preserves the correct placement and is more convenient. Or so I'm guessing :^) Lee ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
