Only raw format (.bin) tracks are supported. Disabling Check BPB is strongly recommended when accessing these, as an inaccurate BPB detection may result in read errors, data corruption and other issues. Installation floppies for UNIX and Linux are common examples of non-DOS disks. The BIOS Parameter Block detection method may behave incorrectly with non-DOS floppy disks. If all else fails, a guess is made based on the image file’s size.
Image file header data - not applicable for Raw and DiskDupe formats ĭOS BIOS Parameter Block data within the image
PCjs 1.0 format only 2.0 not supported yet.Ĩ6Box determines the physical media format (sides, tracks per side, sectors per track, bytes per sector) of a floppy disk image through the following methods: Once loaded, any image can be converted to 86F through the status bar or Media menu.
#Formatted hard disk image creator software#
Disk overlay software such as Ontrack Disk Manager can work around BIOS limits and allow booting of IDE hard drives within the 131071 MB limit, with the same caveats as using such software on a real machine. The maximum supported disk image size for IDE or SCSI is 131071 MB. The table below lists all important limits applicable to the IDE bus:
Such limits will vary depending on the machine’s BIOS. There are limits to how big of a hard disk an emulated machine can accept. Hard disk images įixed, Dynamic and Differencing VHDs are supported through the MiniVHD library. 86Box supports a large variety of disk image formats for the emulated storage drives.