Thanks again, Dave!

The good news: Dave Dunfield has made some changes/additions to ImageDisk (now version 1.09 and copyright 2006), so it's officially not an orphan. :-)) Whoohoo! Thanks, Dave! Now the bad news: I thought I could "cheat the system" by running ImageDisk on Windows 2000, as I have some Tu^H^HWordPerfect 6.1 disks I needed to try to image. Yes, Right there in program documentation it says it won't run on any Winders OS that uses good ol' HAL - that's the Hardware Abstraction Layer for y'all that run the "good" OS's. ;-) Well, I tried to run it in a Winders98 install under VirtualPC under Winders 2000. I was hoping that VirtualPC would open up the HAL enough on floppy access to allow ImageDisk to do it's job. Well, it still didn't work. It tried awfully hard, but the HAL just confused the bejeebers out of it. (At times, ID thought it was reading a Single Density disk!) This is *not* a dig on the program, I *knew* I was asking way more than I should at the beginning. I was *hoping* to have good news if someone wanted to run it on a newer M$ OS that didn't suck nearly so bad as WinME. I guess I'll have to dig my old smellyron (er, celeron) 533 system out of mothballs which runs 98 & install/run it on there. It's just that I'm a bit space-limited right now, and convincing the wife that I need room for a permanent CoCo setup *and* yet another IBM are slim (and at this rate, there's *no* chance for a little space for the Amiga 4000T in the near future... :-/ ). [[ Yes, I know there's a rawrite utility for NT. Yes, I've already tried it. Yes, I'm getting CRC errors. No, I'm not going to swap 12 floppy drives around hoping to get one that can read 'em... :-/ ]] Ah well, ya can't blame a guy fer trying, eh? ;-) Thanks again, Dave! Laterz, Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger | "Profile, don't speculate." SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers | Daniel J. Bernstein zmerch at 30below.com |