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If the files are what is important to you, and software to read them are still in existence, then you can extract the files from the image. I’ll concentrate on IBM/PC formatted disks and Mac formatted disks as they were the ones I’ve recovered and I have become familiar with them.Įssentially, you have two options. Your sector images often contains the most useful data – the data a properly formatted disk would present to the OS/software when accessed. And that if another device happens to come along, the format would be different.

You could possibly analyze the stream files for your own amusement and visualize them.Īs the STREAM files are hardware specific (to the Kryoflux), there’s really no reason or incentive for emulators to support the format, as they have to implement a computationally expensive software decoder that emulates the floppy controller and interprets the fluxes into syncs and data.

You could make several reads and “move” track files between reads with different drives to repair a disk which has non-overlapping bad tracks when read with two different drives.

Later decoding algorithms could possibly remedy decoding flaws or increase decoding performance, and you can benefit from this without re-reading your physical media.

You can re-use the STREAM files and reprocess them with different sector image settings – this could be helpful if your emulator of choice happens to “want” a different type of image file, without resorting to further conversions from already-stripped-down (information wise) sources.

This may be important for copy protected software for example.

At a later stage you can convert these into DRAFT files which are smaller, and retain the high resolution flux data including gaps, sync bytes, protections and noise which don’t appear in the sector images thus later allowing you to access it “more closely resembling the original”.

There are several good reasons to keep your STREAM files if you can – The STREAM files recorded by the Kryoflux may be bulky, and you might wonder why you would keep them if the data you are really interested in is in the sector images anyway (and was read correctly).

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Okay, so after all of that, you have your images – but what to do next? It may not be obvious to all, so I felt like I should at least make a little note about how to deal with them.

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