[sebhc] Re-creating actual floppies from archive

Joe Smith bandit1921 at cox.net
Wed Mar 15 14:08:46 CST 2006


By the same token there should be no reason to not just use a 1.44 disk.
At 11:50 AM 3/15/2006 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi Dave
>  Yes, he could just run the disk cable over. I'd
>not thought about using the systems drive. A good idea!
>Dwight
>
> >From: "Dave Dunfield" <dave06a at dunfield.com>
> >
> >> >For soft-sectored disks, you should be able to use my ImageDisk
> >> >program. If you have a raw-binary image, you can use the supplied
> >> >BIN2IMD utility to add format information (which you will have to
> >> >know and specify), and then the main IMD program to write the
> >> >image to a physical floppy disk.
> >>
> >>  They just need to have a 360K drive on the PC with your tool :)
> >
> >As long as you are aware of the difficulties (ie: use a fresh disk),
> >you can recreate 360k disks quite acceptably on 1.2M HD drives
> >using IMD.
> >
> >Besides, if he has the Heathkit disk system - doesn't he already
> >have a suitable drive - just has to cable it to the PC long enough to
> >make the disks...
> >
> >Dave
> >
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