Examining IMG files

Once you have imaged the IBM PC floppy, you can safely put it away and look at the data on the image you've made.

If you want a known-good FAT12 formatted IBM PC 1.44MB disk image to practice with, this zip download contains one image from fluxengine. Note you have to uncompress the zip and remove the image file within!

Windows

Even though IMG files are 'byte for byte' disk images, Windows doesn't have native ability to mount it as a floppy disk like CD-ROM ISOs. Not sure why, but that's how it is.

You can use https://www.7-zip.org/ instead, which happens to have support for FAT12 format images.

We recommend you download the .msi version as we need that installer to have the context window show up.

In the FluxEngine folder, right click on the img file created, select 7-Zip and Open archive (or you can Extract files...)

You can then interact with the files as you like: