Re: [Freedos-user] command line sector read and write tool?
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, but it wasn't dd), though it shouldn't be difficult to make one. Don't know if this helps or not, but hope it at least offers another option. BTW, if anyone is still looking for a DOS port of 'dd', there's a version 2.1 (1990) available in the GNUish archive at ibiblio: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/gnuish/gnufut21.zip -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] command line sector read and write tool?
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 MBR, then you probably find quite a few free existing tools for backup and restore of MBR. Eric -- SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] command line sector read and write tool?
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 Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] command line sector read and write tool?
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 files... This is not the case with the DOS kernel. To access DOS block devices, you would use other tools... Which certainly do exist but I know no good example apart from DEBUG ;-). You have similar problems in Windows. Of course you can still do all the fun stuff that DD can do if you have a diskimage as a file, even in DOS and Windows, with the DOS and Windows versions of DD ;-). 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 Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] command line sector read and write tool?
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 know if this helps or not, but hope it at least offers another option. -- SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
