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These images lack both the boot sector, partition map. When emulators refer to a hard drive file, a Partition Image is typically what they are actually referring to and support. A Partition Image: contain a binary copy of a single partition from a hard drive or removable drive.These images can be used with Floppy-Emu, and can be read by emulators.

The file size is the same size in bytes as the maximum amount that can be stored on the disk, e.g.

Raw Disk Images of Floppy disks: contain a binary copy of a floppy disk.

Now under emulation they are less popular, but they can be converted to standard “raw” disk images These were created by Disk Copy 4.2 a program provide by Apple, and were the most common images for sharing Macintosh software.

Disk Copy 4.2 images, typically of floppy disks.

There are several types of disk images you’ll come across working with 68k systems: This guide is written for Disk Duplicator (DD) is a standard application that can be used for imaging hard drives, removable drives, memory cards, usb keys, and CD ROMs.ĭisk images are essentially binary (bit for bit) copies of the contents of a storage device or medium such as your Hard Drive, removable drive, memory card or CD-ROM (ISO files).

With SCSI being essentially obsolete, and the fact that Macintosh systems (since OS X 10.6 I think) can no longer write to HFS formatted disks, the best way to use modern systems when setting up your classic 68k system is to create a bootable drive image using a Macintosh 68k or PowerPC emulator then writing that disk image to a real or emulated disk drive.