req help: extracting files from bootimg.bin
tg
files needed from a boot floppy disc such as the Win98 startup floppy. Roxio
reads the floppy files and burns them on the CD-R as Bootcat.bin and
Bootimg.bin and the computer can boot from the CD. Is there a way to reverse
this? ie: take these two .bin files from a CD and reverse them so you get
the original files back on a floppy?
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Charles Dye
> I notice in Roxio EZCD Creator 5 one can make a bootable CD by supplying the
> files needed from a boot floppy disc such as the Win98 startup floppy. Roxio
> reads the floppy files and burns them on the CD-R as Bootcat.bin and
> Bootimg.bin and the computer can boot from the CD. Is there a way to reverse
> this? ie: take these two .bin files from a CD and reverse them so you get
> the original files back on a floppy?
BOOTIMG.BIN is just an image of the floppy disk. Simply copy it back
to a floppy, and then read your files from that. (BOOTCAT.BIN is
irrelevant.)
For floppy-imaging chores like this I use a program called WIMAGE.EXE
that was included in ye olde FDFormat package. Other programs like
RAWRITE.EXE should work equally well.
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Charles Dye ras...@highfiber.com
tg
"Charles Dye" <ras...@highfiber.com> wrote in message
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thanks for your feedback Charles, but a couple of things confuse me.
If you copy the BOOTIMG.BIN file back to a floppy, won't you just get a
floppy with a big BOOTIMG.BIN file on it? What I really wanted was to get
the individual files back that oroginally made the BOOTIMG.BIN file.
Is WIMAGE.EXE used to make a BOOTIMG.BIN file from a floppy or does it do
the reverse?
Charles Dye
> "Charles Dye" <ras...@highfiber.com> wrote in message
> news:3c3ff09a.03020...@posting.google.com...
> >
> > to a floppy, and then read your files from that. (BOOTCAT.BIN is
> > irrelevant.)
>
> If you copy the BOOTIMG.BIN file back to a floppy, won't you just get a
> floppy with a big BOOTIMG.BIN file on it?
By "copy it back to a floppy" I mean write the image onto a floppy,
overwriting any existing filesystem on that disk. No, using the COPY
command or the like would not work.
> Is WIMAGE.EXE used to make a BOOTIMG.BIN file from a floppy or does it do
> the reverse?
Either way, actually, depending on the order of the arguments:
wimage a: mydisk.img
creates an image file MYDISK.IMG of the floppy in drive A:
wimage bootimg.bin a:
writes the floppy imaged in BOOTIMG.BIN to a disk in drive A:
One download source for the FDFormat package:
ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/utildisk/fdform18.zip
Minor warning: WIMAGE is a DOS-based program. If you use it to write
images to floppies under Windows NT/2000/XP, you will see a spurious
error message. (The program does function correctly; the error can be
ignored.)
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Charles Dye ras...@highfiber.com
tg
yeah thanks again Charles I did it and was able to make a bootable floppy
disc from a BOOTIMG.BIN file on a CD.
Great stuff.