[Coco] SuperIDE restore to CF card from a VHD file.

[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

.vhd are no good for superIDE. .vhd use 256 byte sector as superIDE images
use 512.

try this one, fresh from my superIDE:

http://www.filedropper.com/cfsideimg



Luis Felipe Antoniosi




On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Mark Rawson <ukretrogames at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is my first post here and I'm fairly new to using Cocos, so please
> excuse any dumb questions.
>
> I'm a UK retro-computer collector and own a couple of NTSC Coco 3
> computers. One of which, I purchased with 512K RAM and a SuperIDE from
> Cloud 9.
>
> The first thing I did (before even testing the SuperIDE) was to make a
> backup of the included CF card using the Win32DiskImager tool.  This
> created a file with a .IMG (presumably RAW) extension. However, I've since
> found a 300+ MB image online, taken from a SuperIDE CF card, which appears
> to be in .VHD format which is full of goodies and works well in the VCC
> emulator.
>
> My questions are:
>
> Which program was used to create this VHD file?
>
> and
>
> Can I restore this to a 512MB SanDisk CF card and use it in my SuperIDE on
> my real Coco3? If so, which tool/program is required to write a VHD image
> back to a CF card?
>
> Does the image need to be converted to another format before restore?
> Again, if so, which tools/programs should I be downloading?
>
> I have access to Mac, Linux and Windows (in order of preference).
>
> I don't have a great deal of experience with the Coco. I don't even have
> much experience with the Dragon 64 I also own. The Dragon wasn't as popular
> as the Sinclair Spectrum I owned back in the day and UK Dragon owners were
> the butt of jokes from Spectrum, C64, Amstrad and even BBC Micro owners.
>
> I'm willing to make amends now though, so please be kind.
>
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