Date   : Sat, 10 Mar 2001 00:22:21 +0100
From   : Isabel Cisternas & Robert Schmidt <rschmidt@...>
Subject: Re: transfer of files

Hi Toby,

Any chance that your 5.25" ADFS drive could read your Grandad's WDFS
5.25" as a disk image - i.e. by passing the file/directory structure,
and reading the disk sector by sector?

A disk image can then be read directly in a BBC emulator, say BeebEm for
Windows, or you can extract the files using a tool called "bbcim".  (I
don't think "BBC Explorer" supports Watford images... ?)

Most ["IBM compatible"] PCs with 5,25" drives have a hard time reading
any BBC disks - I don't really know about Archimedeses, but it's worth a
try.  

You should check out http://bbc.nvg.org/software.php3 - that page should
have most of the tools available, also for RISCOS.

Cheers,
Robert Schmidt
"The BBC Lives!"
http://bbc.nvg.org

Toby Marthews wrote:
> 
> Dear BBC micro email list: My Grandad wants to transfer some files from
> BBC format discs to PC. He asked me because I used to use the good ol beeb
> ages ago and I thought I could do it, but I can't.
> 
> At work I can transfer from ADFS 5.25 inch to ADFS 3.5 inch on an
> Archimedes and then from ADFS 3.5 to PC DOS on another machine, but my
> Grandad's disks are "Watford double density DFS" not ADFS. Does anyone
> have any advice for me?
> 
> Hopefully someone does! Thanks a lot for reading!
> 
> Toby Matthews
> Edinburgh