Re: .IMD diskette image file recovery

2016-02-04 Thread Tony Nicholson
[Please excuse the lack of threading - I read cctalk in digest form.] On Wed, 3 Feb 2016, Jim Simpson wrote: > Is there a utility that will read .IMD diskette archive files and recover > the data? I've found a wealth of BigBoard & BigBoard II data (and lots of > other stuff too) on many

Re: .IMD diskette image file recovery

2016-02-04 Thread Curious Marc
Yes, Fred is right, I assumed from your question that you wanted the raw binary data without the .imd sectoring info. To get the files back, you then need a way to mount that binary image on your target machine or emulator so it can read the file system. What is the target machine? What file

Re: .IMD diskette image file recovery

2016-02-04 Thread Mark J. Blair
If you want raw data from an IMD file in some order other than the physical ordering on the original media, my Python package that I linked to previously may be helpful. It may also require some coding, but the supplied classes make it pretty easy for somebody with Python familiarity to access

Re: .IMD diskette image file recovery

2016-02-04 Thread Eric Smith
On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 11:31 PM, Mark J. Blair wrote: > If you want raw data from an IMD file in some order other than the physical > ordering on the original media, my Python package that I linked to previously > may be helpful. It may also require some coding, but the supplied

Re: .IMD diskette image file recovery

2016-02-04 Thread curiousmarc3
Yes, if you download the original imd, in the package there is a simple to use command line utility to do just that. Writing from memory, IMD2BIN.EXE or something like that. Marc > On Feb 3, 2016, at 4:56 PM, Jim Simpson wrote: > > Is there a utility that will read

Re: .IMD diskette image file recovery

2016-02-04 Thread Fred Cisin
> Is there a utility that will read .IMD diskette archive files and > recover the data? "Data"??!? Well, you already have the DATA, every last bit. Maybe what you want is the INFORMATION, in the form of the FILES. All too often, people will use "data" to describe the contents, which could be

.IMD diskette image file recovery

2016-02-03 Thread Jim Simpson
Is there a utility that will read .IMD diskette archive files and recover the data? I've found a wealth of BigBoard & BigBoard II data (and lots of other stuff too) on many different sites, all saved in .IMD format. Is it possible to read these files and recover the data instead of writing a

Re: .IMD diskette image file recovery

2016-02-03 Thread Steven Hirsch
On Wed, 3 Feb 2016, Jim Simpson wrote: Is there a utility that will read .IMD diskette archive files and recover the data? I've found a wealth of BigBoard & BigBoard II data (and lots of other stuff too) on many different sites, all saved in .IMD format. Is it possible to read these files and

Re: .IMD diskette image file recovery

2016-02-03 Thread Jason T
On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 6:56 PM, Jim Simpson wrote: > Is there a utility that will read .IMD diskette archive files and recover > the data? I've found a wealth of BigBoard & BigBoard II data (and lots of > other stuff too) on many different sites, all saved in .IMD

Re: .IMD diskette image file recovery

2016-02-03 Thread Mark J. Blair
I've been developing Python code for dealing with .IMD files off and on. It's not complete by any stretch of imagination, but if you're comfortable with Python then you might be able to use it to do what you want: https://github.com/NF6X/pyImageDisk At this time, extracting meaningful data