Post #4332585
2026-06-21 01:10 UTC
A question to @polpo & experts regarding #picoide:
I have some old PCs I did not turn on in a looooong time. I have no idea, if the HDDs still work. The picture shows an example HDD from a 486, running DOS and Win 3.11
Could you direct me to some resources:
1. How do I create a disk image e.g. from this drive, which can be emulated with #picoide ?
2. is there some possibility of a "standalone HDD dumping mode", where an HDD is directly connected to a #picoide to have a direct image creation?
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@polpo@chaos.social 2026-06-21 14:52
@makelog@mastodon.social Unfortunately PicoIDE lacks the hardware to be a host and read other drives. Fortunately there’s another open source project that can, the ATAboy: https://github.com/redruM0381/ATAboy It can’t dump images directly with but it shows up as a mass storage device. You can then use tools like dd to make an image from the drive.