Thank you for your feedback and suggestions.

Unfortunately it's only possible to create large images from scratch, by creating projects
and defining the disks/images you want to load in the 'collection'.
I could create extra functionality for 'editing' an existing collection, but that can be
pretty hard to accomplish.

Choosing a disk in the project settings screen is more of a gimmick and doesn't do more
than calculating the alignment you need at most. It is still your task to set the correct
alignment. Maybe future functionality could be to set it automatically (the alignment I
mean), but I don't know if the alignment for 720K disks is actually different.

After you pressed the thunderbolt button, you should have given a filename. It should
me easy to find your image...

I will work on the software and implement your suggestions...

Hello,

New version of my tool, see attachment. Most of seob's remarks are 'processed'.
I am still thinking about 'importing' a usb stick. I have some ideas.

Greets!

Hailstorm wrote:

Could you check that for me? I can't get the gotek drive to format my usb-stick... :s

Will do. And yes, it's very picky. It does take a 4 GB SanDisk, but larger ones it refuses and stops after a a certain point with the formatting. But that one doesn't have any LED lights / activity which is something I really want 🤣

EDIT:

Ok I prepared a USB with 1000 disks.

The 1000 slots show up in the software. I can add images. But I'm confused as to how to write them back onto the USB?

The USB only shows the first disk, which is 1.4 MB, so I can't write onto it.

Hi!

It occurred to me that I wasn't clear in how to use the tool. Although I am thinking about adding usb support, It can't write the image to the usb stick yet.
Therefore, you need a second program. I myself am using imageusb from passmark software. That does the trick pretty well.

Thus, collect the disk images and put them in the right spot, click the thunderbolt button and choose a filename and then write the image with an extra
tool to the usb flash drive.

On this moment I am thinking about adding usb support, but that's more lowlevel programming, and I have to dive into that.

I will keep you informed.

Correct me if i'm wrong. Your software creates one big image file from all the files u add into the software?
My gotek creates multiple partitions onto the usb drive in the selected size (720k or 1.44m) so i don't think i can use your software since my partions are to small. Have to check with a other usb stick if my gotek handles one big file.

What my software does is concatenating all images you select.
It uses the alignment setting that you can set in the project settings. So each disk is aligned to that offset. It doesn't mean that all files in these images are bundled into a new filesystem.
All the slots have the size of the alignment and you have to make sure that the gotek device uses the same alignment AND that your images fit in that same size. I chose 180000H, because I read that number somewhere.

The layout is then as follows:

[img_000][offset: 0H]
[img_001][offset: 180000H]
[img_002][offset: 300000H]
[img_003][offset: 480000H]
.
.
.
[img_098][offset: 9300000H]
[img_099][offset: 9480000H]

So, each image gets it's own designated block, so to speak.
EDIT: What I mean by 'block' can be interchanged with 'partition'.

B.t.w. a regular 1.44M disk has 1474560 bytes, which is smaller than 180000H bytes (1572864).

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