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Posted: **Tue Feb 03, 2009 1:20 pm**

no floppy to create/format boot disc ?

extract msdos.ima (for winimage or other) from windows (diskcopy.dll):

simple with pb

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hlib.i = LoadLibrary_("diskcopy.dll")

hres.i = FindResource_(hlib,1,"BINFILE")

If CreateFile(0,"c:\tmp\msdos.ima") ;<- your dos image , use it with winimage !
WriteData(0,LoadResource_(hlib,hres),SizeofResource_(hlib,hres))
CloseFile(0)
EndIf

FreeResource_(hres)
FreeLibrary_(hlib)

for xp/vista/windows7 x86/x64

Posted: **Tue Feb 03, 2009 7:55 pm**

That diskcopy.dll is kinda neat. Thanks for posting this.

Posted: **Wed Feb 04, 2009 1:54 am**

love it!

Posted: **Wed Feb 04, 2009 1:59 am**

I don't really understand this, could you explain it a bit more

Posted: **Wed Feb 04, 2009 4:10 am**

If you don't have a rescue boot disc, you can extract the boot image from the one provided in "diskcopy.dll: in an installed Windows system. It's an MS-DOS boot disk.

Posted: **Mon Feb 09, 2009 5:07 pm**

Anything similar for Windows 2000 ?

update: still doable with Windows 8.1.

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