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Then that's the feature I'm asking for, I guess If ImgBurn can extract a boot image from a device, it would be really nice (and logical) if it could extract a boot image from a disk image file too

Then maybe I'm missing something. I have an ISO file on a hard drive, and I want to use the boot sector from that ISO file to build an updated ISO. How does one do that?

MSDOS is ancient, I know, but I need to create a CD that can boot up into MSDOS 6 or 7, for a few disc management and recovery programs that might still need to access data from that era. The net's got a lot of programs originally released on floppy disk that would be good to be able to boot off a CD instead, but there isn't a guide to this in the "Guides" forum. Trying to do it without a guide fails - ImgBurn wants a boot image and I'm not sure how to get one for an MSDOS system disk or a generic floppy disk based program. A brief guide covering "You have a floppy disk/MSDOS based program and want to make a bootable CD for it" or "Making a bootable MSDOS CD" would be helpful

Right now ImgBurn recognises a number of system formats (Windows installer CD/DVDs etc), and at some point in choosing files or burning the disk, it offers to modify the settings for them. Wouldn't it be nice to have an explicit option "Choose settings for..." that had a dropdown for the various Windows installers and so on, that you could choose a Windows version (or other media type) and it would set up the correct defaults for all the file system settings....?

Can "Boot sector" be improved, and added to the tools menu? The current option is very limited in 2 ways - it doesn't give any information about the boot sectors, and it's misleading as it stands. Right now it lists all devices, and a save icon, and a title "extract boot image". No "browse" button, and not in the obvious place (tools menu). So if you do find this option tucked away inside nested tabs, you're left thinking (as I did) that it saves a boot sector of the devices listed. Not that you can choose any hard drive to browse for an image file to extract the boot sector of. What I'd like would be a dialog "Extract and save boot image" with a box and "browse" button for the source (file or device), and "save boot image..." and "cancel" buttons, and linked from the tools menu and the current location. The other change I'd make is, just like ImgBurn checks if the settings are right for a system install disk, it can probably also check the number of sectors needed for a boot image. The boot image will be for a given OS, the files saved will often be for a given OS, and the image file will be a given size. Automating the entire boot sector side, would be nice

PROBLEM: 1) Your folders on an image or disk you create, are nested within other folders rather than appearing at the root level of the new disk. 2) You get the "maximum 8 levels" error when you are not expecting it. EXAMPLE: You try and burn c:\My data\backups\email and its contents, but instead of getting "\email...". Unexpectedly, your image has the folder "\My data\backups\email\..." created, or an error saying this folder is too many levels deep. SOLUTION: The option responsible is "Options -> Preserve full pathnames". De-select it.