arrow_zs Posted June 27, 2004 Share Posted June 27, 2004 Hi im wondering if anyone has came across a BOOT IMG (Image) Editor/Creator, for Floppy Disks? see, im looking for one that doesnt require a Floppy Drive?Is there a way to Create a Fake Floppy Drive? with in Windows? for say Virtual Floppy Disk? and just copy all the needed files etc? then use some type of IMG Creator?Or, if there is a program that will create a IMG file from a select of files? can someone help me?Im trying to make a IMG file, for Norton GHOST, more like a recovery disk, but i cant seem to make it because i dont have a Floppy Drive, just CDR/RW, and DVDR/RWbecause i wanted to test them on VPC2K4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arrow_zs Posted June 27, 2004 Author Share Posted June 27, 2004 Nevermind, i came across WinImage 6.0 which does what i wanted, now to test it out, trying it in 2.88MB Floppy Format, because Ghost requires 2 Disks, and Ghost.exe takes up about 1.2MB, so.. thats not enough space for the Config.sys etc to require the floppy to boot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilou_Gateux Posted June 27, 2004 Share Posted June 27, 2004 See this URL : VMware's backVirtual Floppy Driver [uPDATED: Jun. 17, 2004]Virtual floppy disk driver for Windows hosts to access floppy image files. Virtual Disk Driver [uPDATED: Jun. 04, 2004]Virtual disk driver for Windows hosts to access virtual disk files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankE9999 Posted July 10, 2004 Share Posted July 10, 2004 You can also build a simple batch file that will build a 2.88MB bootable floppy image from files on your hard drive. To do this you need mkbt.exe and bfi.exe which can be downloaded from the following URL'shttp://www.nu2.nu/mkbt/http://www.nu2.nu/bfi/While there may seem like a lot of information on these pages the overall process is very simple.o Insert the bootable floppy in the a: drive and extract the boot sector using use mkbt.exe (only need to do this once). mkbt.exe -c a: "bootsect.bin"o Copy all the files from the floppies including hidden files such as IO.SYS and MSDOS.sys to a folder such as GhostFiles.o Use bfi.exe to build the bootable floppy image bfi -v -t="288" -f=ghost.img -b=bootsect.bin GhostFilesghost.img is an 2.88MB bootable floppy image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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