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First post, by SirDaShadow

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I'm sorry if this has been answered before, but I still don't get it. In order for dosbox to mount a HD image, you need to know its geometry. I have some disk images I would like to mount, however I don't know how to determine their geometry.

Is there a utility (for windows if possible) that can read the geometry of a disk image? I have some qemu images but qemu automatically detects them....

Reply 1 of 1, by canadacow

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Normally when you generate the disk images the application will tell you the Cylinder, Head and Sector specifications. I'm not quite sure how QEMU figures out the CHS automatically, but I'll look into their code and see if I can't borrow their code so QEMU images will be loadable.

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