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Win32diskimager + USB Floppy drive= BOOM!

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First post, by Matth79

Posted on 2016-09-17, 23:07

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Do not use Win32diskimager with a USB floppy!
It has a nasty habit of overwriting C instead.

Got caught by this when trying to prep a floppy for an old machine, and blew away my dual boot.

Winimage (shareware) seems to be ok, not sure if others (preferably freeware) can do it...

http://freeextractor.sourceforge.net/diskwrite/
http://www.chrysocome.net/rawwrite
http://dvalot.free.fr/emtcopy.htm

Reply 1 of 5, by Stretch

Posted on 2016-09-18, 01:57

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What about Roadkil's Disk Image?

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Reply 2 of 5, by Matth79

Posted on 2016-09-18, 22:44

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Aha, had heard of Roadkil's unstoppable copier, but it seems there's quite a catalog

Reply 3 of 5, by leileilol

Posted on 2016-09-18, 22:46

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don't use usb floppy drives for any preservation operation period.

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Reply 4 of 5, by elianda

Posted on 2016-09-19, 11:24

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Matth79 wrote:
Do not use Win32diskimager with a USB floppy!
It has a nasty habit of overwriting C instead.

I also tried this once and it wrote over some other random fixed drive (F: in my case). Luckily I had a backup.
However I can only warn about using Win32disimager as it seems to have some serious bug there.

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Reply 5 of 5, by Matth79

Posted on 2016-09-19, 22:36

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It was actually for a BIOS flash for my "found system".

Finally created the disk, reached over the machine (had its back to me) and pushed the floppy into the slot...

When it fell inside with a clunk

The floppy drive had been removed!

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