Bootable - editable IMG file without diskette drive

[JimmyM]

In the olden days, before I found imgBurn I edited the files on a diskette, made an image, then made the CD/DVD.

 

I no longer have access to a diskette drive.

I can burn a bootable CD/DVD with imgDrive, using my old image file.

 

What I can't do is make an image file with new edited files on it.

 

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

 

TIA

Jim

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Use Build mode -> Advanced tab -> Bootable Disc tab -> Extract Boot Image.

 

Point it towards an existing disc in one of your drives - or mount your ISO in a virtual drive program and point it at that.

 

Then add that freshly created boot image in the other fields above and add your normal files to the 'Source' box on the left.

[JimmyM]

Thanks for the help.

 

Sorry, I didn't make myself clear enough.

 

I could already do this - works fine.

 

However, the boot image contains files that were on the original diskette. (It boots Win98, loads CD and mouse drivers, then the autoexec file runs Ghost.)

 

It is these files in the boot image (whick I used to change on the floppy disk) that I would like to change (just a little to reflect the change of backup media from CD to DVD).

I tried (in XP SP2) making a virtual floppy disk, formatting it, then using this to make the disk image, but the built CD didn't work (using the custom Options IS09960 + Joliet ... Sectors to load 4).

 

Your excellent program is doing it's job very well. I just kinda hoped you had some thoughts on how to add what I want to the image.

 

Thanks

Jim

 

Use Build mode -> Advanced tab -> Bootable Disc tab -> Extract Boot Image.

 

Point it towards an existing disc in one of your drives - or mount your ISO in a virtual drive program and point it at that.

 

Then add that freshly created boot image in the other fields above and add your normal files to the 'Source' box on the left.

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Ah so it's a floppy disc image then!

 

Try a program called WinImage on the boot image file.

 

It should be able to manipulate the image without killing it's bootable properties.

[JimmyM]

Solved!

 

Started with WinImage, but remembered I had some very old HDDs with DOS 6.22 on them.

 

Tried a few before I found one that was not dead.

 

Simply copied the Ghost files, etc. to that hdd, then made an image of the file.

 

Used standard settings, and it worked (as hdd).

 

The image was over 2 GB, so I'll repartition it smaller after I edit the files, and make a more reasonable size image.

 

It's great to be able to easily make changes to the Ghost batch files (last one was in 2001).

 

Many thanks for your help.

 

Cheers

Jim

[mmalves]

Micro$oft Virtual PC 2007 - you can use it to boot and/or "edit" floppy and HD images from any OS