Hi, I have been following a thread in Usenet alt.biniaries.warez.ibm-pc.old regarding the use of winimage and it's effect on changing boot sectors on floppy disk. Seems like a lot of talk without any solid facts. Quanitive but lacking Qualitive values. I have never experianced a problem with this but it has been mentioned that the boot sector can be altered at a later time manually. The problem it seems is that a boot disk might not work if made using winimage as the information is not in the correct sector. Any thoughts on getting the information from a image file regarding the originial boot sector information and a meens of altering it would be welcome. (run on sentence)sorry! World Library

I can't talk for everyone but I used winimage all the time and I have not had any problems now it may be a disk that you make a image out of could be bad to began with but every time I had this problem the program alway let you know if the blank disk you'll copying to is bad its alway let you know to me its a 100 times better than most programs(but like ever program you got read the help files)and know the limited

WinImage will create a bootdisk if the source disk was one in the first place. It will also permit you to alter this for the target disk or saved image, say from 720kb to 1.44MB or 1.44MB to 720kb (If data will fit) BUT once the disk is written you cannot change it any further. Nor will a 1.68MB disk be a bootdisk, as this format is not supported by the BIOS/CMOS So as you can see WinImage can change a disk image, but within a well documented set of rules.

Hi Robin Haven't used Winimage much, but Win9x DOES alter DOS floppies to accommodate long file names - this can cause problems when using the floppies on DOS6xx (or earlier) systems. It can Really Cause problems if the diskette has a proprietary 'copy protection' scheme - quite common in the Old Days (write-protect solves this) My old PCTools Diskfix *always* detects errors on floppies used on my Win9x machines. Not exactly what you were asking I know....

Thank you all. Found a dos disk editor and at first glance it might just help as it opens a floppy and gives all it's details.....even what program formated it. Might turn into a bust but maybe not. World Library

Winimage isn't the one modifying the bootsector - it's Windows as soon as it's written to the disk. You can, however, modify it later with "STBFP" --- "Save the boot" "Save the fat" "Save the partition" --- it can be used to backup/restore bootsectors. - W0rm