Extracting preloaded software from a recovery Iso

[Albert Romer]

Hi,

Does anyone know if it's possible to extract selected software from a recovery Iso?

Thinkpad 365, 560, and 760 were made the same year so they share similar preloaded software: compuserve, puma tranxit, etc...

I have obtained a recovery ISO for a 760. When I try to extract diskettes folder of preoloaded software I found that I cant extract .DSK files. Does anyone know how to extract those .dsk files?

Thank you.

albert.

[fultontech]

I don't have the ThinkPad's or recovery media in front of me, but I do recall extracting everything before. The CD's from that time seemed to create a couple of RAM disks and mounted the physical hard drive under a different letter than "C:". Also some of the install media was looking for the text string "IBM" in the BIOS to allow password protected compressed files to be "unzipped".

[Albert Romer]

Hi, thank you for your reply, but I'm talking about the original recovery cd, not about your own safety copy.

[SMA]

In the old OS/2 days, IBM created two DOS programs (LOADDSKF.EXE/SAVEDSKF.EXE) to copy diskette images to diskette and back. Using file extension .dsk

I believe they are available from the old IBM pccbbs.

I think that the format is raw - that is - sector by sector from the floppy disk.

[cadillacmike68]

You would use loaddskf to "load"the .dsk file TO the disk(ette). Savedskf for the other way around.

OK who know where to find these two, especially savedskf?

[olex126]

Hi Gang

I've got about a dozen copies archived somewhere, but I was too lazy to dig them out, so I found 'em online here....

http://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/misc/ftp. ... /loaddskf/

If they don't work, post back and I'll host a copy of eash

Regards.

Dave

[cadillacmike68]

^^ Thanks!