Creating a Disk Image
A Disk Image is a mirror copy of your entire floppy disk stored as a file. It
may be a good idea to create a Disk Image for a floppy disk containing
deleted files that you want to recover.
"Why," you might ask, "should I create a Disk Image on a disk
that holds my deleted files?"
Here is the answer: If you do something wrong while attempting to recover the
files (for example, recovering them onto the same floppy disk could destroy
their contents), you will be able to recover these deleted files and folders
from the Disk Image that you have wisely created.
Disk Image file has extension .img. Every time you start application it
updates registry entries for the files with extensions .img and .imz. These
file extensions are used by this application for regular and compressed floppy
disk images respectively. Next time you restart Windows you will be able to
open a floppy disk image from Windows Explorer by double-clicking its icon.
To create a Disk Image you can:
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Drug a floppy disk icon and drop it on the image library or on the folder in
the image library.
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Select floppy disk icon in the Tree view or List view and click Create button
 on
the toolbar.
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Right-click on the floppy disk icon and choose Create Image...
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Click Tools -> Create...
When creating a Disk Image, a small two-page wizard will start to help you
choose the kind of image you want to create, its location and dialog capture in
case of self-extractor. On the first page of this wizard you will have to
choose the type of Disk Image that you want to create.
Next page is slightly different depending on the type of Disk Image that you
chose. In case of the regular floppy Disk Image or compressed Disk Image the
next wizard page looks like this:
At this step you have to choose the file path and you can change file type
from regular image to compressed image and vice versa. By clicking button
 you
will be able to browse through your drives in order to choose the file path.
You can also type a file path directly without a dialog. You can change the
default path for new images by clicking Tools -> Options...
In case of a self-extractor file, the second page of a wizard looks like this:
In this page you can edit the File Path and the Self Extractor Dialog Caption
that appears when a self-extractor file is opened. Button is
used to browse through your drives in order to choose the folder's saving
destination.
Watch the progress and wait while the disk's contents are copied to the
new location. You can cancel the process of image creation anytime by
clicking Stop button on a toolbar.
 Important
The Target Location for the Create Image command must
always be specified on a hard drive.
See Also
Open and work with Disk Image
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