8 Oct
2005
8 Oct
'05
11:51 a.m.
On Sat, 8 Oct 2005 10:58:17 -0700 (PDT)
Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, Chuck Guzis wrote:
They used that format for the Windows NT 3.51 Floppy Disk install set.
(the only form of NT I could find retail at the time)
I ended up using WinImage to back up and archive the disks.
Sidenote- For imaging and archiving old PC disks, WinImage is a tool I
don't see mentioned here that has proven valuable. The images that it
produces are generic-plain (if you pick the uncompressed save option),
enough that you can use the dd command in Unix to recreate disks from
the images. It's important to me that there be multiple tools or at
least a documented format to access archived images.
(if you've never installed NT 3.51 off floppy disks, you've missed out
on a real _fun_ experience)
Shades of IBM XDF--and whatever the format that
MS used briefly to
pack about 1.7MB on a floppy--basically writing combinations of
differently
I think that Microsoft called theirs "DMF"