Dialog Floppy Write
The Write Disk (Floppy Drive) workflow writes the active disk image to a
physical floppy disk using a standard Windows floppy drive (A: or B:).
This is a direct PC BIOS / floppy-controller workflow and is independent of the Greaseweazle and Kryoflux flux-based workflows documented under the Flux menu.
The workflow uses two dialogs:
- The Disk Write Options dialog chooses format and verify options.
- The Write progress dialog reports per-track progress and handles errors.
- Menu: Disk -> Write Disk to Drive A
- Menu: Disk -> Write Disk to Drive B
The menu items are enabled only when the active image is suitable for writing and the corresponding drive letter is available.
If the inserted disk's format does not match the image, or if the disk is unformatted or of an unknown format, a warning is shown before the options dialog opens.
The Disk Write Options dialog selects options that apply to the write operation.
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Image Type
Shows the format of the active image (read-only). -
Disk Format
Shows the format detected on the physical disk. If the disk is unformatted this reads Unformatted; if the format could not be determined it reads Unknown. -
Format Disk
When checked, each track is low-level formatted before it is written.
This checkbox is automatically enabled when the detected disk format does not match the image format or when the disk is unformatted. -
Verify Writes
When checked, each track is read back immediately after writing and compared against the source data. Enabled by default.
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Ok
Confirms the options and begins writing the disk. -
Cancel
Aborts the workflow without writing the disk.
Once options are confirmed, the Write progress dialog is shown.
The dialog tracks progress one cylinder at a time, using the same track grid style as the other disk dialogs:
- Separate grids for Side 0 and Side 1 (Side 1 is disabled for single-sided formats).
- Rows represent the tens digit of the track number, columns represent the ones digit.
Each cell reflects the status of the corresponding track.
- Yellow — Track is currently being formatted
- Blue — Track is currently being written
- Purple — Track is currently being verified
- Light Green — Track was written successfully
- Red — Track write, format, or verify failed
A cell marked red additionally shows the number of bad sectors detected on that track.
- Action — the current operation (Writing, Formatting, Verifying, Complete, Aborted).
- Track nn Side n — the track currently being written.
- Bad Sectors — a running total of bad sectors, updated when errors are encountered.
If a track fails to format, write, or verify, a standard Abort / Retry / Ignore message box is shown:
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Abort
Stops the write and closes the progress dialog. -
Retry
Restarts the failed step for the same track. -
Ignore
Counts the bad sectors toward the running total and advances past the failing track, continuing the write with the next track.
When the write finishes without errors, a confirmation dialog indicates that the disk was written successfully.
The button in the progress dialog acts as Abort while the write is in progress and becomes Close once the operation ends.
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Abort
Requests cancellation. Confirmation is required before the worker actually stops. -
Close
Closes the progress dialog after the write has finished.
- This dialog uses the Windows floppy-driver stack and is subject to whatever formats the drive and driver actually support. For non-standard or copy protected disks, use the flux-based workflow (see Write Disk).
- Writing does not modify the source image in the workspace.
- The write operation is destructive to the physical disk.
- On an unformatted disk or a disk of an incompatible format, Format Disk is enabled automatically. It should be unchecked only when the disk has already been formatted externally.