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Writing and Reading of LS-120 Images and Disks?

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First post, by CaelThunderwing

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after being intrigued by a video by MJD about the mini Windows 3.1 fitting entirely on a single 1.44Mb Disk, then recently the one about a "Rescue environment" version of Windows 7, that runs from a 50Mb ISO image, i got the S*it eatin idea (i didnt care if it'd be painfully slow) of running that image from an LS120 disk.

WinImage wont have anything to deal with it,
dd for windows just writes garbage data,
rufus Etcher and .net disk image writer all ignore the drive,
Disk Utility (older power mac G4) kept sitting "Restore failed: Drive not configured"

shy of *TRYING* say something possibly like Ghost/parted magic to clone the CD Image over, or connecting the drive Directly in my older 98 PC over IDE (its the last gen USB version that didnt use that prone-to-failure adapter to USB. ) or booting up a linux machine and seeing if proper versions of dd would work, i have no idea How to write any image or read to an image of a LS120 drive. Has anyone been able to do this? are there tools that actually work?

Reply 1 of 3, by derSammler

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Try "ADRC Data Recovery Tools v1.01". They can read and write images of any drive selected simply by the drive letter. The only requirement is that the drive allows block-access.

Reply 2 of 3, by CaelThunderwing

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i've tried and No luck, im looking more less at this point if its just possible to even MAKE it bootable in the first place

Reply 3 of 3, by derSammler

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Err... wait. You are not trying to write that ISO file directly to the LS-120 disk, are you? That's not going to work. Even if you find a tool that will write it, it won't ever boot this way. Sector size and file system are not compatible. You can not use a file system for optical media on magnetic media or vice versa. You need to format the LS-120 disc and inject the files from the ISO instead.

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