Reading Floppy Disks
Reading Floppy Disks
Embird supports standard
and non-standard floppy disk formats.
Standard floppy disks are disks with designs stored in standard
MS-DOS format. These disks are recognized and can be accessed in Windows
Explorer, common file manager or any other application supporting floppy disks.
In Embird you can access standard floppy disk by choosing the disk drive
(typically "A:") in "Drive:" box in Right
Panel of Manager window.
Non-standard floppy disks are disks with
designs stored in special format. These disks are not recognized and cannot be
accessed in Windows Explorer or in common file manager - these applications
report "Disk is not formatted" error when you attempt to read floppy
disk contents. In Embird you can access non-standard floppy disks via Left
Panel menu of Manager window. However, the non-standard floppy disk
formats require low-level access and therefore the non-standard floppy disks are
supported only when running Embird in Windows 98 or Windows ME. Embird does not
support non-standard floppy disks when running in Windows NT, 2000 or XP.
Reading Standard Floppy Disks (MS-DOS
Format)
1 - Run Embird, it will
start in "Manager" mode.
2 - Insert the floppy disk into the disk drive.
3 - Choose floppy disk drive in the right panel in "Drive:"
box (Picture No. 1).
Picture No. 1
4 - In the "Files:" box at the right side of the screen select the
design which you want to read from the floppy disk. To select a design, please move the mouse pointer to its file name and
click the left mouse button (Picture No. 2).
Note:
You can select multiple
files and read them all from the floppy disk at once. Please move mouse pointer to the file name of the
first design in the "Files:" box at the right side of the screen, depress the
left mouse button and hold it down while moving the mouse pointer over
the file names of the other designs. When the mouse pointer is over the
last design, please release the
left mouse button.
Picture No. 2
5 - Move mouse pointer to the "Files:" box in right panel and click right mouse button for popup menu. Choose "Copy Files to Clipboard" command to copy selected designs to the clipboard. You will find this command also in "Right Panel" menu (Picture No. 3).
Picture No. 3
6 - Select hard disk drive in "Drive:" box in right panel (Picture No. 4). You can also choose the destination folder in "Folder:" box, into which the selected files from the floppy disk will be copied.
Picture No. 4
7 - Move mouse pointer to the "Files" box in right panel and click right mouse button for popup menu. Choose "Paste Designs from Clipboard" command to copy the files from floppy disk to hard disk. You will find this command also in "Right Panel" menu (Picture No. 5).
Picture No. 5
8 - Embird will paste the files to
the chosen drive and folder - in this example, the files will be written to the
"C:\EMBIRD32\FILES" folder.
Writing Non-Standard
Floppy Disks (e.g. Barudan, ZSK)
1 - Run Embird, it will
start in "Manager" mode.
2 - Insert the floppy disk into the disk drive.
3 - Click "List A:" button and wait until Embird recognizes
the floppy disk format (Picture No. 6).
Tip: The list of supported non-standard disk
formats appears after a short while after moving the mouse pointer to he
"List A:" button.
Picture No. 6
4 - You can see files stored on the floppy disk in the left panel in "Files:" box. Select files which you want to copy to the hard disk (Picture No. 7). To select the files, depress left mouse button and drag mouse over the filenames.
Picture No. 7
5 - Move mouse pointer to the "Files" box in left panel and click right mouse button for popup menu. Choose "Copy Files to Hard Disk" command. You will find this command also in "Left Panel" menu (Picture No. 8).
Picture No. 8
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Picture No. 10
