
You can capture an image with dumpfloppy and then write it back with ImageDisk, or use the dumpfloppy tools to examine or extract an ImageDisk file."

For image files, it uses the IMD format defined by Dave Dunfield's ImageDisk. " -d Use direct disc access…to read from infile, bypassing the kernel cache.…Sector size must be correctly set for this to work.…"ġ.44MB floppy: ddrescue -b 512 -c 18 -d /dev/fd0 floppy.img floppy.mapĭOS floppy imaging/recovering examples from Archive Team ( source)ĭumpfloppy "is a suite of tools for reading floppy disks in arbitrary formats supported by the PC floppy controller, and for working with the resulting image files.


" -c sectors Number of sectors to copy at a time.… The number of sectors per track (18 or 9) is a good value for floppies.".dd if=/dev/fd0 of=floppy.img conv=notrunc.SpinRite: "Everything SpinRite does for hard disk drives also works on floppy diskettes of any size and density." This allows ImageDisk to work with virtually any soft-sectored diskette format that is compatible with the PC's type 765 floppy diskette controller and drives."ĭiskImg: "Read/write complete (physical/logical) disk to/from file." A detailed analysis is performed on the diskette, and information about the formatting is recorded in the image file. IMD), and to recreate a copy of the diskette from that image. ImageDisk 1.18 "is a program to read entire diskette images into files (type. Comment attributed to 030 Datenrettung Berlin GmbH: "The best software to recover / copy floppies I know is VGAcopy/386.".Attempting to Repair Bad Sectors on Damaged Floppy Disks in MS-DOS: "VGA Copy is particularly useful when bad sectors cannot be repaired.".

VGA-COPY/386 6.25: "World-renowned utility for copying and formatting floppy disks." Imaging and recovering data from floppy disks # DOS Imaging and recovering data from floppy disks
