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First post, by hasnopants

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Does anyone know of a tool for dos that would allow me to write a disk image to a floppy while in DOS via command line? I want to be able to image 5.25 floppies to make boot disks but the only drive I have is on a legacy machine. The machine has a CF for storage so I can put the image on that from my modern computer then the hope would be to transfer to the legacy machine and write the image (the bootable .img) to the 5.25 floppy drive thats installed in the system. I cant think of another way to easily make bootable 5.25 images. Suggestions welcome. Thanks!

Current Systems:
DIP40|8088|640K|HERCULESGB102|PCSPKR
DIP40|V20|640K|VGA|ADLIB/TNDY/COVOX
S7|P233MMX|128M|S3ViRGEDX/DM3D|SB16
S370|P600MMX|256M|SIS630/DM3DIIX2|SBLIVE!5.1
S775|P43.4|2G|6800GS|SBAUDIGY

Reply 2 of 8, by keropi

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how about HD-COPY? it will handle .IMG files just fine and it has a nice ascii gui
https://web.archive.org/web/20160304075734/ht … .jp/HD_COPY.htm

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Reply 3 of 8, by hasnopants

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Awesome thanks for the suggestions guys!

Current Systems:
DIP40|8088|640K|HERCULESGB102|PCSPKR
DIP40|V20|640K|VGA|ADLIB/TNDY/COVOX
S7|P233MMX|128M|S3ViRGEDX/DM3D|SB16
S370|P600MMX|256M|SIS630/DM3DIIX2|SBLIVE!5.1
S775|P43.4|2G|6800GS|SBAUDIGY

Reply 5 of 8, by maxtherabbit

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jheronimus wrote on 2021-07-13, 16:09:

I've used rawrite to write 5.25 360KB floppies for my Tandy 1000SX using a 386 machine.

+1 for RAWRITE

It works with all types of disk too, not just 360kB

Reply 7 of 8, by Jo22

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I used to use QCopy 4 (DOS) on a 286/386 when I was very young.
Because, that's what my father used for making backup copies of setup diskettes*.
The imaging feature was more of an extra/gimmick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zEVBO84afk

Nowadays, I use WinImage 3.x on a 286 (Win31) and Disc Copy Fast on my XT compatible (DOS).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HIk4YhBrGk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zEVBO84afk

*There also was another disk copier that was popular in the 1980s.
I can't recall its name, though.

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Reply 8 of 8, by mbbrutman

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konc wrote on 2021-07-14, 07:01:

M. Brutman's (mTCP) DSKImage and FreeDOS' diskcopy command

Adding more color to this:

  • DskImage is compatible with raread/rawrite, or any other tool that handles raw sector dumps.
  • DskImage requires DOS 2.1 (or later) and runs on any old DOS PC. It will even run under Windows where Windows supports 16 bit code.
  • DskImage is more aggressive about transient read errors than other programs. Retrying errors more gives you a better chance of getting a good clean read of the entire disk.
  • Source code is posted on the web page.
  • Handles any geometry you can give the BIOS, including 160K, 180K, 320K, 360K, 720K, 1.2MB, 1.44MB, etc.
  • Does not handle copy protection ... use Teledisk or something like that instead.

http://www.brutman.com/DskImage/

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