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How do I dump an image back to a floppy disk?

Applies to: RIDE 1.7 and later

  1. Click on Disk → Open to open the image to dump to a real floppy disk.
  2. Click on Disk → Dump to show the Dump to destination dialog.

  3. Click on the Destination button (Alt+D) to show a classical Save file dialog. Don't click on the floppy drive icons! Instead, click on the Access real devices on this computer shown at the bottom of the dialog.

  4. The application tries to find any of supported devices connected locally to the computer (which may take a while), and lists them in the Real devices dialog, with the most recently used device pre-selected. Confirm the selection by the OK button.

  5. Back in the Dump to destination dialog, confirm the value set in the Medium combo-box (Alt+M). If it doesn't specify the right floppy type, change it to comply with the floppy inserted in the drive. Such inconsistency may arise, for instance, if the application was unable to recognize the disk operating system (DOS) automatically.
  6. Specify the range of Cylinders to dump to the floppy (Alt+F, and Alt+T, respectively). You usually may leave the default values (whole floppy will be dumped), unless you are creating a patch.
  7. If the destination floppy has already been formatted to the target geometry (for instance, you are about to dump a TR-DOS image to a floppy which you know has already been formatted in Betadisk drive), you can tick the Medium already formatted check-box (Alt+A). If ticked, only missing or corrupted tracks will be reformatted, thus speeding up the dump process. If unticked, each track will be formatted. If ticked and the medium is actually not formatted, the dumping may perform slower. Hence, untick this check-box whenever you are not sure about the state of the medium to gain the best performance.
  8. If the DOS has been recognized by the application, you usually at this moment may click on the Dump button to store the specified number of cylinders to the floppy, as all remaining values in the dialog are set correctly. If the DOS has been not recognized, you very probably will have to adjust them manually as described below.

  9. Click on the Dump button.
  10. This step depends on the device you selected in the Real devices dialog:
  11. A dialog displaying the actual progress pops up.
  12. Occasionally during dumping, the Sector read error dialog may show up, reporting on errors while reading a particular sector (e.g. for a *.DSK source image). The only sensible choice here is to accept all errors (see the Accept button options).

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