What can i use to put a .IMG file onto a floppy disk?

[cadillacmike68]

Hi, I have a .IMG file (image file) for a diskette (a boot floppy for windows). What program (and where can i get it) can be used to apply the image file to the diskette? Thanks in advance.

[automobus]

rawcopy.zip - 6.40 KB
http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html/
By Olof Lagerkvist. All of his little utilities are fabulous.

[cadillacmike68]

Many thanks - strange disk drive id notation \\.\a: but hey it works!!!

[ozzymud]

there is also rawrite, dd, or a trial of WinImage. Another handy tool if you work with floppies is vfdwin, Virtual Floppy Drive for Windows... I use it to extract those IBM driver disks to an IMG so i can use rawrite/dd/winimage later to write to a real floppy without having to read through the license agreement again

[jdrou]

Another handy tool if you work with floppies is vfdwin, Virtual Floppy Drive for Windows...

Yes, I discovered this a few years ago and it's been very useful, especially on laptops with no physical floppy drive.
http://vfd.sourceforge.net/

[crashnburn]

I think I might do the opposite to backup a bunch old 3.5" Disks.

[ozzymud]

For backing up floppies... dd is awesome... it is a raw copy...

example for a 1.44MB floppy...

dd if=\\.\a: of=filename.ima bs=1440k

dd: the program (for windows )
if: input "file" (linux treats drives as "files")
of: output file... any name you want here (IMA IMG are the standard extensions for floppy images)
bs: block size (1440k reads the floppy in one "chunk", if the disk has errors in it, you can read smaller chunks like 1k or 512 although it is much slower it will get more data)

get it here: http://www.chrysocome.net/dd