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# Win32 only: Tools to manipulate disk images

## Winimage

Someone on the bochs-developers list mentioned that they use a program called WinImage, from www.winimage.com to read and write disk images (floppy and hard disk). Winimage is a commercial product with a 30-day trial.

If anyone wants to write a tutorial, send mail to bochs-developers mailing list and volunteer.

## DiskExplorer

This section was contributed by Luca Cassioli and Stanislav Shwartsman

I eventually found what all of you were looking for for a long time: a freeware, graphical, win32 compatible HardDisk image editor! It can handle a large variety of formats, but the one you need is VMWARE 2.0 PLAIN DISK: you can import/export to/from bochs images COMPLETE DIRECTORIES!

You can find it at http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA013937/editdisk/index_e.html

## Ben Lunt's MTOOLs for Bochs and Win32 and/or DOS

Ben Lunt wrote a set of utilities for Dos/Win32 to manipulate flat disk images.

You can find it at http://www.cybertrails.com/~fys/mtools.htm

These utilities includes :

- BOCHSRC.EXE "Bochs Resource" A utility to create/modify a bochs resource file.

- MKDOSFS.EXE "Make DOS FS" A utility to create a FAT disk image of specified size.

- MCOPYF.EXE "Copy From" A utility to copy an existing file from a FAT disk image to the current directory.

- MDEL.EXE "Delete file" A utility to delete an existing file from a FAT disk image.

- MDIREX.EXE "Directory Extended" A utility to view a FAT disk images directory and FAT contents.

- MGETIMG.EXE "Get Disk Image" A utility to create a disk image from a floppy (multiple formats).

- MBOOTCD.EXE "Create a CDROM Image with boot options" Create a CDROM image capable of booting with only a ROOT and a single file.

- MGETCD.EXE "Get Disk Image of Physical CD" A utility to create a disk image from a CD.

- MCDINFO.EXE "Get CD Info" A utility to the info from a CD. Not much yet, but a little.

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