Re: [Freedos-user] command line sector read and write tool?

2008-12-23 Thread Jim Hall
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Travis Siegel tsie...@softcon.com wrote: If copying raw sector information is all you're after, then you can use rawrite, I used it many times to write out boot disks for booting linux file systems. I don't know of a dd version for dos (thought I'd used one,

Re: [Freedos-user] command line sector read and write tool?

2008-12-11 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! Is there a command line tool to read a sector from harddisk, store it somewhere and write it back later? While not user-friendly at all, you can use DEBUG for this as long as the sector is inside a FAT formatted partition. Old DEBUG versions do not support FAT32. If the sector is the

Re: [Freedos-user] command line sector read and write tool?

2008-12-11 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Eric schrieb: Alternatively, you could search for a dos port of dd dd for DOS sounds interesting. Was there ever a DOS port? There is dd for Windows, does someone got it to run under HX DOS Extender? -- SF.Net email is

Re: [Freedos-user] command line sector read and write tool?

2008-12-11 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! Of course there are DOS versions of DD, as for many GNU tools, for example on www.delorie.com - however, there is a misunderstanding: DD alone does not help you editing disks. The trick is that the Linux kernel lets you access disk devices (for whole disks and for partitions) as if they were

Re: [Freedos-user] command line sector read and write tool?

2008-12-11 Thread Travis Siegel
If copying raw sector information is all you're after, then you can use rawrite, I used it many times to write out boot disks for booting linux file systems. I don't know of a dd version for dos (thought I'd used one, but it wasn't dd), though it shouldn't be difficult to make one. Don't