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   mutazilah@gmail.com to Joe Monk   
   Re: windows 10 img format   
   10 Jul 21 03:21:50   
   
   From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, July 10, 2021 at 7:08:38 PM UTC+10, Joe Monk wrote:   
      
   > The .img filename extension is used by disk image files, which contain raw   
   dumps of a magnetic disk or of an optical disc. Since a raw image consists of   
   a sector-by-sector binary copy of the source medium, the actual format of the   
   file contents will    
   depend on the file system of the disk from which the image was created (such   
   as a version of FAT).   
      
   > Since IMG files hold no additional data beyond the disk contents, these   
   files can only be automatically handled by programs that can detect their file   
   systems. For instance, a typical raw disk image of a floppy disk begins with a   
   FAT boot sector, which    
   can be used to identify its file system.   
      
   > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMG_(file_format)   
      
   Thanks for the link. I did a search for "windows" but didn't   
   get what I wanted.   
      
   Unfortunately Windows 10 is rejecting raw floppies and   
   raw hard disks (both .img), that work under Bochs and Qemu.   
      
   Hence my question.   
      
   Mounting .iso CD/DVD is not useful to me at the moment.   
      
   BFN. Paul.   
      
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