Writing

The basic process for writing a disk image to disk much the same as reading a disk into memory and then saving it to a file - just in reverse. Essentially, all you must do is:
  1. Open the disk image you wish to write.
  2. Choose the drive you wish to write it to.
  3. Start the write process.
  4. Wait for it to finish.

Before you can write a disk image to disk you need to have that disk image open. You can either load a disk image file into memory (See section 1.3) or you can read a disk directly into memory (Section 2.2).

Next you must select the drive you wish to write the disk image to (Section 2.1). Make sure you select the correct drive as any existing data on the disk in that drive will be erased. Once this is done you may start the actual disk imaging process.

Lastly, choose Write Disk from the Disk menu. A progress dialog (Image 2.4) will appear and, should no errors occur, a ``Disk Imaging Complete.'' message (Image 2.3) will eventually appear. The disk in the selected drive should now be an exact copy of the original source disk or disk image file.

Figure 2.4: Writing a disk
Image writing-disk

If errors have occured, try replacing the disk you are writing to or clean the drive. Despite what error messages may say, this version of DIMG is not capable of retrying reads or writes. If a read or write fails you have to start again.

David Goodwin 2011-04-09