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Floppy disk image help
I have a boot floppy (pc dos) that I want to email to my fellow co-workers. Is there a way to make an image or some way to have it extract to a new floppy when I mail it to them? I just want them to insert a disk and push a button and then have an disk copy of one I made (bootable and all).
Thanks!
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Why not just mail them the link to http://www.bootdisk.com/ .........tell them which boot to download, tell them how to run the executable......and it will put it on a floppy for them.
NTrawrite is free and works very well.
Find a copy here: http://ntrawrite.sourceforge.net/
Place your floppy in the drive.
Extract NTrawrite to a folder off the root. IE. c:\ntrawrite.
Go to a cmd prompt and switch to c:\ntrawrite.
Here is the command: ntrawrite --reverse -f {name of file here}
The floppy image will get created in that directory. Send it along with the utility and they can extract it on their end.
Hope this helps.
Find a copy here: http://ntrawrite.sourceforge.net/
Place your floppy in the drive.
Extract NTrawrite to a folder off the root. IE. c:\ntrawrite.
Go to a cmd prompt and switch to c:\ntrawrite.
Here is the command: ntrawrite --reverse -f {name of file here}
The floppy image will get created in that directory. Send it along with the utility and they can extract it on their end.
Hope this helps.
Forgot to mention - send along a batch file they can exeute from the same folder as the utiltiy and the image.
Here is the contents of the batch file (name it mkboot.bat):
ntrawrite -f {your filename here} -d a:\
Here is the contents of the batch file (name it mkboot.bat):
ntrawrite -f {your filename here} -d a:\
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Thanks all for your help! I tried the first link and it work great. I'll give the free one a try too.
JConchie thanks but this disk was a custom Ghost boot disk with all my mapping done in the autoexec.bat file. Rather than use the boot wizard or do disk copies, I just wanted to send them the file in an email attachement.
JConchie thanks but this disk was a custom Ghost boot disk with all my mapping done in the autoexec.bat file. Rather than use the boot wizard or do disk copies, I just wanted to send them the file in an email attachement.