If you performed physical imaging (in other words, created a disk image), in order to extract the files from the disk images, there are a few tools that we can use. The main tool for extracting disk images is CCA disk processor. The BitCurator Image Access Tool and HFS Explorer are used as backups or when confirming you creating an image correctly. HxC Floppy Emulator is primarily a backup for extracting floppy disk images. If all of these fail, consult with the digital archivist to try other methods.
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- In Windows, click the HxC Floppy Emulator on the desktop.
- First click load and select the image from its file location.
- Then select disk Browser to view the contents of a DOS formatted disk.
You can then use Ctrl-A to select all the files and click the "Get Files" button to extract the files to your processing folder.
Info title Note More advanced users may also try the “Track Analyzer” option, which will allow you to look at a graphical representation of the tracks and the disk as well as a hex editor view of the contents. You can select track mode, which will show the individual tracks close up or disk mode, which will show you an overall view of a disk.
- If you are running this tool to extract the files, go to the CCA tools SIP creator section to run that on the extracted files and the disk image (if you want to keep it).
itstar
itstar is a tool for extracting files from ITS backup tape images. This tool is used with the Tapes of Tech Square ToTS collection to extract files.
- Open up the terminal in BitCurator
Navigate to the folder where you want the extracted files to end up.
The first time(s) we run the command we will use the "t" option to only print to the terminal what files would be extracted by the command
Code Block language bash $ itstar -t[encoding options]f /path/to/tape/image.tap