Making new copies of floppies

Selecting Make Floppy Disk will display

Ready to create Boot disk in A:
insert a blank formatted 1.44mb disk in A:

press ENTER to continue or CTRL C to quit

If you press ENTER it will then display
    (4) Clone4.1 (W98) 
    (D) DBAN (Darik's Boot and Nuke) 
    (S) Drive setup disk
    (G) GHOST disk
    (M) Boot Magic Recovery Disk
    (B) EZBIOS disk
    (A) Additional types of disks
    (E) xit 

Selecting (A) for Additioinal types of disks will display
    (A) Win95A Start Disk
    (B) Win95B Start Disk
    (C) Win98se Start Disk
    (6) DOS 6.2 Boot Disk 
    (E) xit

You can select the letter for the particular type of disk you want to make. Most of the disks are 1.4 meg floppies, so the menu just runs an EXE file which asks what drive you want to use, and when you type A it expands into the files which constitute the desired floppy disk.

The Clone 4.1 disk is formatted to 1.7 mb, because it has too many files to fit on 1.4 mb, so it uses the Disk Copy Fast program from DCF Software to format a floppy to 1.7 mb, like Microsoft uses in its distribution floppies.

Here is what each option means

(4) Clone4 (W98) Create a Clone4 disk which will work with hard disks larger than 2 gig in size, using FAT 32 format. Clone4 disk provides the ability to be an Interlink Client or Interlink Server, as well as enter DOS mode where a series of DOS utilities are available.
Click here to learn more about making Clone 4

(D) Darik's Boot and Nuke Darik's Boot and Nuke (http://dban.sourceforge.net/) ("DBAN") is a self-contained boot floppy that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction. Many donors are reluctant to leave hard drives in the computers they donate, because of the confidentiality of the data on them, but you can provide them DBAN floppy disks that they can run on their computers before donating them. DBAN offers several different wipe options; the default is the "short DoD method".

Dwipe Methods: dod522022m American Department of Defense 5220-22.M standard wipe. dodshort dod3pass DoD short wipe, passess 1,2,7 from the standard wipe. gutmann Peter Gutmann's wipe. ops2 RCMP TSSIT OPS-II standard wipe. prng random PRNG stream wipe. quick zero Quick erase.

(S) Drive setup disk A Drive Setup disk is used to perform a number of very important steps to prepare a disk which has already been tested and shown to be good, to receive a brand new operating system. First all partitions currently on the disk are removed, the drive will be repartitioned as one large partition, the boot sector will be scanned for possible viruses (and cleaned if any are found), a ScanDisk will be done, including a surface scan, to see if there are any bad places on the disk, and the disk will get a label "Harddisk", and then if the disk is being setup for Windows 95A or B a "sys c:" will be done, to reserve space for c:\command.com, c:\msdos.sys, and c:\io.sys, but those files will then be erased so the clone operation which you will then do can copy over the proper files.
Click here to learn more about Drive Setup

(G) GHOST disk Most GHOST operations on an Road Warrior are done in the GHOST partition, but occasionally a GHOST disk is needed, for example if you want to make a GHOST copy of your Road Warrior Hard Drive, and this facility will allow you to make a new one.

(M) BootMagic recovery disk This disk should not be needed on a Road Warrior, because it does not use Boot Magic, but it is left in in case you have one of the older Image Machines
A BootMagic recovery disk is sometimes needed when GHOSTing a new Image Machine Hard Drive. Sometimes after GHOSTing a new HD it will bring up Boot Magic with no problem, in which case the BootMagic recovery disk is not needed, but if it says the BootMagic file has been corrupted, insert the BootMagic recovery disk, and reboot, and it will come up in the BootMagic recovery program, where you can click Save/Exit, and this will rewrite the BootMagic control file.

(B) EZBIOS disk Old Western Digital partitioning software.
Occasionally you will run across a Hard Drive on which EzBios has been installed, and this disk can be used to remove EzBios.

(E) xit Terminate the Make Boot Disk Procedure and return to menu

Disks created by "Additional Disks"

(A) Win95A Make a Boot Disk (Startup disk) for Windows 95A

(B) Win95B Make a Boot Disk (Startup disk) for Windows 95B

(C) Win98se Make a Boot Disk (Startup disk) for Windows 98se

(E) xit Terminate the Additional Disks procedure and return to Make Disks procedure

(4)	Clone4 (W98)	Create a Clone4 disk which will work with hard disks larger than 2 gig in size, using FAT 32 format. Clone4 disk provides the ability to be an Interlink Client or Interlink Server, as well as enter DOS mode where a series of DOS utilities are available. Click here to learn more about making Clone 4
(D)	Darik's Boot and Nuke	Darik's Boot and Nuke (http://dban.sourceforge.net/) ("DBAN") is a self-contained boot floppy that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction. Many donors are reluctant to leave hard drives in the computers they donate, because of the confidentiality of the data on them, but you can provide them DBAN floppy disks that they can run on their computers before donating them. DBAN offers several different wipe options; the default is the "short DoD method". Dwipe Methods: dod522022m American Department of Defense 5220-22.M standard wipe. dodshort dod3pass DoD short wipe, passess 1,2,7 from the standard wipe. gutmann Peter Gutmann's wipe. ops2 RCMP TSSIT OPS-II standard wipe. prng random PRNG stream wipe. quick zero Quick erase.
(S)	Drive setup disk	A Drive Setup disk is used to perform a number of very important steps to prepare a disk which has already been tested and shown to be good, to receive a brand new operating system. First all partitions currently on the disk are removed, the drive will be repartitioned as one large partition, the boot sector will be scanned for possible viruses (and cleaned if any are found), a ScanDisk will be done, including a surface scan, to see if there are any bad places on the disk, and the disk will get a label "Harddisk", and then if the disk is being setup for Windows 95A or B a "sys c:" will be done, to reserve space for c:\command.com, c:\msdos.sys, and c:\io.sys, but those files will then be erased so the clone operation which you will then do can copy over the proper files. Click here to learn more about Drive Setup
(G)	GHOST disk	Most GHOST operations on an Road Warrior are done in the GHOST partition, but occasionally a GHOST disk is needed, for example if you want to make a GHOST copy of your Road Warrior Hard Drive, and this facility will allow you to make a new one.
(M)	BootMagic recovery disk	This disk should not be needed on a Road Warrior, because it does not use Boot Magic, but it is left in in case you have one of the older Image Machines A BootMagic recovery disk is sometimes needed when GHOSTing a new Image Machine Hard Drive. Sometimes after GHOSTing a new HD it will bring up Boot Magic with no problem, in which case the BootMagic recovery disk is not needed, but if it says the BootMagic file has been corrupted, insert the BootMagic recovery disk, and reboot, and it will come up in the BootMagic recovery program, where you can click Save/Exit, and this will rewrite the BootMagic control file.
(B)	EZBIOS disk	Old Western Digital partitioning software. Occasionally you will run across a Hard Drive on which EzBios has been installed, and this disk can be used to remove EzBios.
(E)	xit	Terminate the Make Boot Disk Procedure and return to menu
Disks created by "Additional Disks"
(A)	Win95A	Make a Boot Disk (Startup disk) for Windows 95A
(B)	Win95B	Make a Boot Disk (Startup disk) for Windows 95B
(C)	Win98se	Make a Boot Disk (Startup disk) for Windows 98se
(E)	xit	Terminate the Additional Disks procedure and return to Make Disks procedure

With the exception of the Clone 4.1 disk, the EXE files used to make copies of the floppies were made using DiskImager 1.1 by Port Jackson Computing. I found there was an error in the documentation for this program.

It said that to create an EXE file (by SFX) you should use: DI /S A: MYIMAGE.EXE. I actually found the format needs to be: DI A: MYIMAGE.EXE /S.