WinImage for DOS

[MaTel]

Hello,

is there a diskimage-tool like winimage for DOS?

Regards
MaTel

 

[JohnElliott]

Several. Teledisk, for instance (google for teled212.zip), or LoadDSKF/SaveDSKF. For that matter, the DISKCOPY in DRDOS can image standard DOS disks.

 

[RichCini]

Hello,

is there a diskimage-tool like winimage for DOS?

Regards
MaTel

I use two programs for DOS: readimg/writimg (both from Microsoft) and 2file/2floppy (old Pc Magazine utilities). Both work well, even in a DOS box under XP. A little googling should produce links to these utilities. I use them for making floppy boot disk images.

 

[hargle]

there's a teledisk 2.15, on this site:

http://retrograde.trustno1.org/index.html

and there's lots of other interesting programs too...

 

[RichCini]

I've been contacted a few times about these, so here they are. They are raw disk image read/write utilities from Microsoft. Unsure of where I got them, but they were not "internal" utilities.

 

[Al Kossow]

there's a teledisk 2.15, on this site:

http://retrograde.trustno1.org/index.html

and there's lots of other interesting programs too...

and https://web.archive.org/web/20090724051049/http://retrograde.trustno1.org/index2.htm as a necroreply to the retrograde site, which has been dead since 2009

 

[Plasma]

DskImage works well and uses raw sector files which are compatible with WinImage.

Edit: I didn't notice this thread was bumped from 2008

 

[Svenska]

Most older Linux or BSD distributions came with RAWRITE.EXE or RAWRITE3.COM to write installation images to disks. Some also had a RAWREAD.EXE to read a regular floppy into an image file. There have also been DOS ports of "dd". None of these will work with copy protection.

 

[doshea]

Can TeleDisk create raw disk images which can be used with most tools, or can it only create images in what I seem to recall was a proprietary format?

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From my notes, including some details of the DOS ports of 'dd' that I found:

FreeDOS DISKCOPY allows reading from and writing to disk images

http://ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/disk/raread/raread11.zip: can create disk images - a companion to the rawrite tool shipped with Linux distributions

The 'dd' from /pub/pc/garbo/pc/unix/uxutl23b.zip from garbo.uwasa.fi (in https://archive.org/details/2012.11.24.ftp-garbo-mirror) can read (and write?) raw floppies, hard disk drives and partitions, although it can't seem to read a 720KB floppy from a 1.44MB drive in Bochs (but that could've been a Bochs configuration issue)

The 'dd' from disc2/gnu/gnuish/gnufut21.zip in https://archive.org/details/cdrom-cdrom-simtel-for-msdos-september1997-disc2 has support for raw disk access, use e.g. if=0: to read from A:, doesn't seem to work for hard drive though. The 'dd's in disc2/gnu/gnuish/dos_only/fut312bx.zip and disc2/gnu/gnuish/gnuish93/futi14bx.zip don't seem to have such support.

http://adoxa.altervista.org/shsufdrv/index.html allows mounting a disk image, optionally copying it into RAM first, but apparently has bugs with writing to it

 

[mbbrutman]

As Plasma points out above, DskImage works well for non-copy protected disks.

• Runs on all flavors of DOS from 2.x to the newest versions.
• Is more aggressive about retries when reading to handle transient errors that appear on older disks.
• Can read and write any floppy disk you can express as BIOS parameters (heads, tracks, and sectors).
• Works under older 32 bit versions of Windows.
• Source code is provided.

The link Plasma provided is pointing at my PCjr web server because of a re-direct. The long-term link is https://www.brutman.com/DskImage/DskImage.html (http or https).

 

[alank2]

Post #46 has my latest FDIMAGE which will run on 8088's.

https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/my-floppy-drive-image-tool-1-00.62346/page-3

It has versions that run in DOS or in Win9x/NT.