The original problem was resolved as follows: First I downloaded a dos boot floppy creator from www.bootdisk.com and then created a boot floppy image from Windows XP booted inside Qemu. I then used a 200MB file that I had created with dd as a disk image in Qemu and then booted up from the DOS floppy …

I have been following two paths (cul-de-sacs). I now have a VirtualBox host running FreeDOS. The problem I ran into there is that I could not share a drive between virtual and real PCs. I am sure this is possible as I have seen http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Sharing_files_with_DOS But my brain is …

Can you mount the disk image in dosbox? Then it's merely a matter of booting the image. Sure, I have a real disk on F: which contains the image I would like to boot, but neither of the modern PCs I have tried will boot off it. In DOSBox I can MOUNT F: F:\ But when you say that it's merely a matter …

Did you already tried Dosbox, load the stacker driver and mount the disk image file as drive d: ? Then you could copy simply the stuff to c: that could be some mounted resource of your usual drive. My current line of attack is to run DOSBox and try to copy from the stacker compressed drive to …

I have tried booting off a new disk in a modern PC and also the original Toshiba, but there is just a blank screen. I may be able to get a DOS boot CD but will Stacker be included by default ?

I haven't tried that, partly because the original HDD is very flakey and partly because getting it out of the laptop is such a chore. I'll try that now as I have no better option.

No - I'm afraid this isn't working. I have an initialized but unformatted 1TB disk and use Acronis (in Disk mode) to recover the image (including the disk signature). That creates a 2GB FAT active partition with the data on, but when I try to boot from it I just bet a blank screen with flashing …

I tried making a 2GB FAT partition on a data disk and marked it active. But the boot selection menu doesn't offer that as an option. Do I need to fix the boot loader ? How ? Perhaps I need to make that the only partition on the disk ? Wouldn't have thought so but I'm a long way short of …

HDD is indeed IDS 2.5" and the Toshiba is a notebook. I have an adapter and can indeed connect the disk to a modern PC but as the HDD is bust I would need to clone it to a new one first. Would a modern PC boot up ? I would have thought there were many hardware components that would not have been …

I would like to extract a file from a Toshiba T4500C that ran DOS v5. Problem is that the only output device - a floppy, is dead. The hard disk is almost dead too, but I have been able to image it (using Acronis). I can extract the hard disk and attach it to another PC but the document I want is …