Floppy image

[rockyone]

under Windows XP or Windows 7
which software to create floppy images of 2 sides, 83 tracks, 10 and 11 sectors ?

[dma]

Nothing without a special hardware such as Kryoflux i think.

[joska]

See here: http://8bitchip.info/atari/floimgd.php

I have never tested this myself as I don't use Windows, but this should work if the PC has a real floppy controller. USB floppydrives won't work.

[ijor]

under Windows XP or Windows 7
which software to create floppy images of 2 sides, 83 tracks, 10 and 11 sectors ?

The problem is no so much the software or the operating system but the hardware. You need an old school floppy controller that most newer PCs don't have. Most USB drives won't work except for 80 tracks and 9 sectors per track. Or otherwise as already noted, you can use special hardware such as Kryoflux or SCP. In either case you need a standard floppy drive mechanism.

[rockyone]

See here: http://8bitchip.info/atari/floimgd.php

I have never tested this myself as I don't use Windows, but this should work if the PC has a real floppy controller. USB floppydrives won't work.

With XP,
I tested with several diskettes: 2 faces, 83 sectors and 10 tracks.
The files are readable with STEEM, although there are read errors when copying on sectors 80 to 83 ,. Fortunately, there was no data on these areas.
I will test next week with another older floppy drive.

[rockyone]

Floppy transfer works well with STT mode regardless of the format of the floppy disk.
Important, click on the icon of reader A before each transfer !

[joska]

The files are readable with STEEM, although there are read errors when copying on sectors 80 to 83 ,..

Many disk drives, especially "new" ones will have problems past track 79. It's a quite common problem on ST's too.

[rockyone]

With the readers of the years 2002 and 2005, the "Floppy to image" mode does not read all the sectors.
"Floppy to STT" mode works well with both floppy disk drives.
- The floppies had no protection. -

[russ]

I found an old dell with a floppy drive worth the look works great Fcopy to format on ST then copy from pc to floppy then back to ST