Yes (Windows 2000 and later), make sure that you are using HD (High Density) floppy disks when you recreate the floppy disk.

Open an existing IMA file, or create a new IMA file. Browse into the IMA file inside an Explorer Window and use the "Run Tool" link or submenu. If you cannot create/open IMA files, re-install CompreXX and make sure you select the "WinImage Archives " plugin.

Open the menu with available drives (Alt+F1/F2) and open the context menu for the desired floppy disk drive (click the right mouse button or use Shift+F10 key). You can choose "Format..." or "Copy Disk..." from this menu.

Floppy Disks are extremely unreliable! Many students have lost essays and class projects as a result of a failing floppy disk. Don't let this happen to you! If you must use a floppy disk, make at least two back-up disks. Always create more than one copy of your files, and save them in multiple locations (or e-mail the file to yourself) Print out a hard copy of your document. In the event of floppy disk damage, you will still have the printed copy to work from. Beware of viruses.

First of all, a warning: whole Debian GNU/Linux is way too large to be installed from media as small as a standard 1.44MB floppy disk - you may not find installing from floppies a very pleasant experience. Copy the Debian packages onto formatted floppy disks. Either a DOS, the native Linux "ext2", or the "minix" format will do; one just has to use a mount command appropriate to the floppy being used.

Yes (Windows 2000 or later), make sure you read the floppy disk using the "emergency" mode and that you check the option in the settings to "recreate bad sectors" before you write the image file back to your new floppy disk. Some floppy disks use protection schemes that do not rely on bad sectors and might not work with Floppy Image.

So can I do it? Nope! The SVD emulates floppies by generating the sector header information dynamically. This means, however, that operations that attempt to write out this information (like when formatting) will not work. In fact, they tend to confuse the crap out of the SVD, causing you to have to re-download whatever image you were using.

Our software is too big to fit onto a floppy disk. Arrangements can be made on a case by case basis for a CD to be sent via post.

If you do not have the required hardware, and do not know anybody else who does, you can arrange this with us directly, please contact us.

Select the files you want to archive in an Explorer window, and right click the selection. Choose "Compress...". Check the archive types you want to create, then click "Settings". In the "Settings" window(s) that appear, specify that you want to enable spanning onto floppy disks. All future archives you create will be spanned, until you disable this setting. Click "Details".

Because Biblioscape database tables have fixed length records, the database files are very large. But if you compress the files, a 10 MB database can easily fit onto a single floppy disk. For this you need zip software; we recommend using WinZip (www.winzip.com). Run WinZip, click on the "New" button. Select the floppy drive and give a zip file name. Click on the "Add" button and go to the directory where your Biblioscape database files are located.

No. Due to the success of the annual Experience Pakistan competition and the amount of entries we are now receiving every year, we can now only accept entries on CD's. Any entries recieved by email or on floppy disks will be disqualified.

The following instructions assume that you created the backup using WinZip software as mentioned above. Insert the last floppy disk of the set in your floppy disk drive and open the zip file on this floppy disk corresponding to TaalMala installation using WinZip software. After you have unzipped the installation package, use the original serial number and registration code provided to you for installation. If you have any problems, contact us.

Because it doesn't work yet. RedSquirrel is a Win32 application and as such is restricted to using the Win32 API. Windows doesn't support anything other than 512byte blocks on floppy/hard disks and Acorn disks use 1024 byte blocks. There are two ways around this, neither are pretty and neither work under Windows 2000. I had a half hearted attempt at writing a VXD to give me bios access but it hasn't been entirely successful. I will try again soon.

One can write the disk image to a floppy with linux dd command, in runing linux system or with using a live linux cd, open the image directory and put a formatted floppy in the floppy drive, in a terminal type: for windows in dos run the rawrite.exe and follow the on screen instructions, windows xp users download the rawwritewin, it is a nice graphical client for writting disk images to a floppy.

Yes, although when using versions below 1.2 to create floppies from image files created with newer versions error messages can be displayed. These messages are a result of the new file format introduced in version 1.2 and are not serious.

The system we use requires some high-level programming knowledge. We use a relational database, MySQL, along with our own customized programs and storage system. You can read about our image retrieval system here: http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/retrieval.html. Our programs are freely available to other developers who want to build similar systems. The page above contains instructions on how to do that. There are several commercial image databases.

Microsoft offers the Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) Image Format Specification under a royaly-free license to make it easier for partners to develop VHD-based solutions and continue to enhance the capabilities and extensibility of the VHD format. Full access to the detail specification is available by signing the Virtual Hard Disk Image Format Specification License Agreement. For further information on the specification or to request a copy of the licensing agreement, please content vhdlic@microsoft.

The format of an image generally corresponds to the type of compression used, which is represented by an extension (after the period). For example - yourimage.jpg or yourimage.gif. The only authorized formats are therefore gif, jpg, or jpeg. If your image is not in one of these formats, you'll have to open it using a graphics application, and save it under a relevant format.