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Mysteries of imgmount (floppy)

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First post, by butterfly

Posted on 2008-10-07, 13:38

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Recently something happened but no configuration was changed at all.
I used to have, and still have, a config file to run a game using a floppy image made up with WinImage.
Such configuration always worked using DOSBox 0.72
Two days ago I run DOSBox 0.72 with the config file named above and I got this error:
"Non posso creare il drive da file", "Cannot create drive from file".
What might have changed?
Perhaps an XP problem?
Anyway I managed it extracting the content of the floppy image to a folder.
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WinXP Pro SP3
DOSBox 0.72

Reply 1 of 9, by h-a-l-9000

Posted on 2008-10-07, 13:45

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Maybe the game or the DOSBox FAT handler managed to corrupt the image?

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Reply 2 of 9, by DosFreak

Posted on 2008-10-07, 13:57

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or corrupted filesystem on the host?

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Reply 3 of 9, by butterfly

Posted on 2008-10-07, 23:54

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h-a-l-9000 wrote:
Maybe the game or the DOSBox FAT handler managed to corrupt the image?

DosFreak wrote:
or corrupted filesystem on the host?

How can I check that (it's just for curiosity's sake)?

Reply 4 of 9, by MiniMax

Posted on 2008-10-08, 07:50

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Maybe http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html

Reply 5 of 9, by butterfly

Posted on 2008-10-09, 15:08

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Uhm... i'm a bit puzzled. maybe the .IMG file is corrupted cos I succeeded to mount it using the suggested program but the virtual floppy disk looks blank...

Reply 6 of 9, by MiniMax

Posted on 2008-10-09, 16:10

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Can you mount a different (good) image with VFD?

Reply 7 of 9, by butterfly

Posted on 2008-10-11, 13:01

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Uhm... No, I can't.

Reply 8 of 9, by ADDiCT

Posted on 2008-10-11, 14:23

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WinImage. I'd rather use a program like WinImage than to install a device driver (which VFD does, i believe - it seems to be similar to Daemon Tools) on my system. (;

Reply 9 of 9, by butterfly

Posted on 2008-12-22, 17:38

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Ok, right, for some reasons the image is ruined

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