10 Jan
2006
10 Jan
'06
6:17 a.m.
A DOS-bootable USB key would be really neat for IMD;
but if not, if anyone
(like me) has Norton Ghost 2003, it will build a boot-floppy with both USB
& Firewire drivers.
Boot from floppy, IMD on either firewire drive, USB key or drive, make
images anywhere you want... Doesn't sound like a half-bad idear, eh? [1]
If you can give me a driver that will provide "generic" access to USB storage
devices under DOS, I would be very grateful, and would happily put togther a
boot setup that would make use of it - so far I have not found a way to access
a USB device of any kind under DOS (not that I've spent much time looking,
but I have had several "it would be nice" moments)
One question: Can IMD deal with FAT32 partitions? (As
in, if DOS gives it a
drive letter, can IMD write an image file to it?)
IMD just does INT 21 calls to open/read/write/close the image files. So it should
work fine - I've used it under Win9x (fat 32) - it also works OK over a network
redirected file system
Dave
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