ImageDisk under Win2k (was: Thanks again, Dave!)

[Roger Merchberger]

Rumor has it that dave04a at dunfield.com may have mentioned these words:

> > A DOS-bootable USB key would be really neat for IMD; but if not, if anyone
> > (like me) has Norton Ghost 2003, it will build a boot-floppy with both USB
> > & Firewire drivers.
> >
> > Boot from floppy, IMD on either firewire drive, USB key or drive, make
> > images anywhere you want... Doesn't sound like a half-bad idear, eh? [1]
>
>If you can give me a driver that will provide "generic" access to USB storage
>devices under DOS, I would be very grateful, and would happily put togther a
>boot setup that would make use of it - so far I have not found a way to access
>a USB device of any kind under DOS (not that I've spent much time looking,
>but I have had several "it would be nice" moments)

Santa might be a little late on this one, but he just might have something 
popped into your private inbox here shortly... ;-)

> > One question: Can IMD deal with FAT32 partitions? (As in, if DOS gives 
> it a
> > drive letter, can IMD write an image file to it?)
>
>IMD just does INT 21 calls to open/read/write/close the image files. So it 
>should
>work fine - I've used it under Win9x (fat 32) - it also works OK over a 
>network
>redirected file system

Kewl. That's good to hear. ;-)

Thanks again, Dave!
Roger "Merch" Merchberger

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