I've seen WinImage for DOS posted below but it appears that's more centered around floppies and I don't want to hijack that thread
I'm looking to be able to copy byte-for-byte a raw physical MFM disk (I'm using its paired controller) and output the image into a file containing the exact same bytes. I have it set up currently in a Socket 7 machine. I've been testing software in VMs and PCem prior to deployment on the physical system.
I've tried:
I'm still looking around for tools but I seem to be coming up short. Does anyone know any particular software that can do what I'm looking to do? I'm not restricted to floppies as my DVD RW (yes DVD lol) is recognised and usable by the system, but not bootable.
Thanks in advance
Appendix 1:
Using a VM I went into Linux and ran `dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdc` in order to erase the drive. Norton Ghost then unfortunately had the drive greyed out so I'm assuming it isn't actually raw disk access. In PCem with two raw drives it says that there's no drives available to copy.
I'm looking to be able to copy byte-for-byte a raw physical MFM disk (I'm using its paired controller) and output the image into a file containing the exact same bytes. I have it set up currently in a Socket 7 machine. I've been testing software in VMs and PCem prior to deployment on the physical system.
I've tried:
- Norton Ghost
- It doesn't access the raw drive (see appendix 1)
- Quarterdeck DiskClone 1
- It saves it in some silly proprietory format
- Multiple old versions of GParted Live for i486 systems
- Stuck at "booting kernel" on the physical system
- PAUD 2.0.3 with `dd`
- Drive not recognised
- "The 'dd' from disc2/gnu/gnuish/gnufut21.zip" in PCem as mentioned by doshea in the WinImage for DOS thread, but indeed it doesn't appear to support HDDs.
- MHDD
- Crashes
I'm still looking around for tools but I seem to be coming up short. Does anyone know any particular software that can do what I'm looking to do? I'm not restricted to floppies as my DVD RW (yes DVD lol) is recognised and usable by the system, but not bootable.
Thanks in advance
Appendix 1:
Using a VM I went into Linux and ran `dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdc` in order to erase the drive. Norton Ghost then unfortunately had the drive greyed out so I'm assuming it isn't actually raw disk access. In PCem with two raw drives it says that there's no drives available to copy.
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