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Win11/64 laptop: WinImage is not writing floppies!

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First post, by Harry Potter

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Hi! I am trying to get my old DOS laptop at my mother's house to work and am trying to install a hard drive on it. Now, I have a set of MS-DOS 6.2 install disks, but IIRC, one of them has a bad sector. Therefore, I need to create new ones but v. 6.22. The problem is that WinImage is not burning the floppies. 🙁 I remember getting it to work once before but don't remember how. Any advice? I have the Shareware version, but the trial period isn't over.

Joseph Rose, a.k.a. Harry Potter
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Reply 1 of 2, by Jo22

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Hi, is the disk image the problem?
If so, it's possible to change disk format in WinImage (360k, 720k, 1,44mb etc).
Setting the disk image to 1,44 maybe fixes issues with non-standard disk images (some are a few bytes larger than 1,44).
You can select 1,44 even if the image claims to be 1,44 already.

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Reply 2 of 2, by Harry Potter

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I actually got it to work, but now I'm getting verify errors, and when I tried a disk, it was corrupt. 🙁 Also, the condition I needed for the disks didn't happen. The laptop I'm trying to set up isn't detecting the hard drives I tried to install. The laptop is an NEC Versa 2000D.

Joseph Rose, a.k.a. Harry Potter
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