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| DskImage | | Описание | Информация | In the 1980s diskettes were the primary storage mechanism for computers. Compared to what we have today, they don't hold a lot and they are not reliable. You also can't "send" a diskette through the Internet as it is a physical object. That is where diskette images come in.
A diskette image is a full sector-by-sector copy of the data on a diskette. Unlike a ZIP archive with files in it, a diskette image preserves the structure of the diskette, the reserved areas, the "free" areas that are not in active use, etc. This is required for accurately reproducing bootable diskettes or for doing forensic work on a diskette. Diskette images can be sent electronically, used in virtual machines, or just serve as backup copies of physical diskettes.
In 2006 I was trying to archive my DOS diskette collection and the tools I was using were not graceful when handling read errors. After a bit of frustration I wrote my own tool that deals with transient errors better.
Here is what DskImage can do for you:
Runs on basically any DOS machine running DOS 2.0 or better. It usually works under older versions of Windows too.
Can read a diskette and save it to a diskette image file.
Can write a diskette image file back to a diskette.
Can handle any known DOS format: 160KB, 180KB, 320KB 360KB, 720KB, 1.2KB, 1.44KB
Allows you to specify the geometry of the diskette directly: heads, tracks and sectors per track.
The diskette image files are raw sector dumps of the diskette. There is no meta data added or compression applied. This makes the image files compatible with virtual floppy drives on virtual machines, Linux DD, Linux loopback mounting, etc.
DskImage uses BIOS calls to interact with the floppy drive. Therefore only BIOS supported floppy drives are supported.
Copy protected diskettes can not be imaged with DskImage. | Раздел: Дискеты
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Операционная система: MS-DOS
Требования: -
Автор: M. Brutman [WWW]
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Добавил: photon1984 (2023.04.09) | Доступные файлы - сортировка по имени и версии, времени добавления
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