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#1 Linoman

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Posted 23 March 2006 - 01:12 PM

Now I have about 20 floppy images on my pc and I want to mount them. You know accsess the files with out having to write them to a floppy. Anyidea how I can do this in Windows?

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Posted 23 March 2006 - 01:14 PM

Well the images...what file extension do they have? Try using Winrar

(as in how zip files have a .zip extension and so on)

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Posted 25 March 2006 - 06:44 AM

The extension they have is .img I know Floppy Image can write the images to floppies but I would rather mount them to the system

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Posted 26 March 2006 - 04:51 AM

mmm, unless winrar/winzip work with it search for an dloppy .img reader or something

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Posted 26 March 2006 - 09:50 AM

Thanks Karl, I found out the floppy's were corrupted but after redownloading the images they opened them with winrar. Works perfictly

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Posted 26 March 2006 - 05:36 PM

sweet karl helped ya... that's not often that it's successful though :P j/p karl




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