Hi Mike, I've already saved the page with his guide on it to favourites and
downloaded the boot disk iso. It looks like a distinct possibility, should
the ifw DVD option continues not to work properly.
John.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Ray" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 11:59 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: accessible disk imaging
Hello John.
At the risk of pre-empting Mo, take a look at his excellent "Clone
Zilla" disk is which is actually a talking Arch Linux boot disk. I
can't remember the URL but Mo will.
On the subject of leads for the Apollo II, it's just a standard DB9 to
DB25 MODEM lead, nothing that only Dolphin can supply.
But, to complicate things more, I don't think USB to serial adaptors
will work because the hardware synths need hardware flow-control which,
as far as I know, is absent from PL2303 and FTDI chipset USB to serial
adaptors.
Mike
On 19/05/2016 11:54, john coley wrote:
Hi everybody, up till a while ago I was successfully using image for windows to do my images. The only drawback was that the only option for a blind person was to image to dvd, as restoring from another drive, be it one on the pc or an external requires using the image for dos recovery disk, which obviously isn't accessible. The dvd option now isn't there for some reason. I've also had images go rogue and install to the wrong partition, leaving me with a trashed system.
When I first raised this on list six years ago there was mention of a solution, also mentioned to me by terabyte for creating a talking image for dos recovery disk using image for linux. I'd looked into it, and gone so far as creating a potentially talking boot disk, but the only problem was that it required an external synth, also my pc would therefore need a serial port, which modern pc's don't have. To add to that I spoke to dolphin yesterday, and they tell me they no longer have the cable to connect the apollo 2.
The person I spoke with at dolphin said that there were imaging programmes which would restore an image to the active partition, which image for windows can't do. You can only restore to another drive, either one on the pc or an external.
I've asked Terabyte why they couldn't have an option whereby one could setup the restore from within windows, but then reboot to install the image. They never gave me an answer, just pointed me to the linux solution again.
If the person I spoke to at dolphin is correct, and there are accessible imaging programmes that will allow restore of the windows partition could anybody point me at one?
Thanks for any help,
John.
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Witley, Surrey, South-east UK
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