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Write .img to 5¼ 360k

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First post, by TTG

Posted on 2025-03-30, 11:09

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Hello everyone.

for the past week or so, i have been trying to find software that writes .img files to (360k) floppys,

i have found a few as in

rawrite,

hd-copy,

img2dsk.

but none seem work correctly.

i cant seem to find much of anything on writing to 360k floppys, all the programs dont like my drive.

so if anyone could find a program that writes .img files to 360k floppys, and actually has documentation on how to do it.

that would be amazing.

Reply 1 of 5, by Jo22

Posted on 2025-03-30, 11:16

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Hi, on DOS there's Teledisk and Disc Copy Fast (DCF)..
It's also possible to run WinImage 3 on Windows 3.1 on a 286 and later.

in the 90s, I've used QCopy 4.

DCF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zEVBO84afk

WinImage 16-Bit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HIk4YhBrGk

Qcopy 4.0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt0cQGwFz5A

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Reply 2 of 5, by Guld

Posted on 2025-03-30, 11:27

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Brutman wrote dskimg, can read or write disk images for many floppy types

http://brutmanlabs.org/DskImage/

Reply 3 of 5, by konc

Posted on 2025-03-30, 12:28

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And if you need a more modern Windows program, Winimage is pretty straight-forward. You click the icon to open the 360K image, you click the icon to write it to the disk.

Reply 4 of 5, by Disruptor

Posted on 2025-03-30, 15:21

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I prefer VGA-Copy.
However, you probably need to rename your .img files into .vcp files.

Big big advantage:
When a track of a floppy disk is not 100 % perfect, it tries to arrange the sectors in a way to avoid marking them as "bad".

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Reply 5 of 5, by DaveDDS

Posted on 2025-03-30, 15:53

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TTG wrote on 2025-03-30, 11:09:

...
a program that writes .img files to 360k floppys, and actually has documentation on how to do it.
that would be amazing.

My own ImageDisk can write images to disk (but you've have to use BIN2IMD first to convert the .IMG
which has no format information into a .IMD which does)
- You can get ImageDisk at "Daves Old Computers"

Easier way is via my XDISK tool - read/write common PC format floppy disks to/from images.
-easiest way to get this is in DBDOS.ZIP available on my site below.

Both of these run under DOS.. If you don't have a DOS system, but do have
a Windows system - I've included DSKWRITE.EXE (a tiny third-party Windows tool
I found to write disk images) in DBDOS.ZIP as well.

Dave ::: https://dunfield.themindfactory.com ::: "Daves Old Computers"->Personal

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