venom4728a Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 Is there an easy way to convert .pro images to .atx? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farb Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 Well, it depends what you mean by "easy" ? The PRO file format does not contain all the necessary information to properly represent a disk. The ATX file format, on the other hand, does contain that information. So, to convert a PRO to an ATX, the missing information has to be created by making educated guesses about what the original disk layout looked like. Sometimes theses guesses are easy to make and sometimes they are close to impossible. Version 0.5.0 of my a8diskutil utility (among other things) has a convert function that can read a PRO file and create an ATX. You run it via: a8diskutil convert foo.pro foo.atx (Mac / Linux) a8diskutil.exe convert foo.pro foo.atx (Windows) So it is easy to convert PRO files using this utility but the resulting ATX may not work reliably for disks that had more advanced protection. a8diskutil makes a best effort to create a working ATX but there's only so much it can do. Keep that in mind while playing with it. Here is the latest version for different platforms (Mac version is the first link): http://www.a8preservation.com/downloads/a8diskutil-darwin-amd64-0.5.0.zip http://www.a8preservation.com/downloads/a8diskutil-win-amd64-0.5.0.zip http://www.a8preservation.com/downloads/a8diskutil-win-i386-0.5.0.zip http://www.a8preservation.com/downloads/a8diskutil-linux-amd64-0.5.0.zip 5 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrwebber35 Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 On 3/28/2021 at 7:46 PM, Farb said: Well, it depends what you mean by "easy" ? The PRO file format does not contain all the necessary information to properly represent a disk. The ATX file format, on the other hand, does contain that information. So, to convert a PRO to an ATX, the missing information has to be created by making educated guesses about what the original disk layout looked like. Sometimes theses guesses are easy to make and sometimes they are close to impossible. Version 0.5.0 of my a8diskutil utility (among other things) has a convert function that can read a PRO file and create an ATX. You run it via: a8diskutil convert foo.pro foo.atx (Mac / Linux) a8diskutil.exe convert foo.pro foo.atx (Windows) So it is easy to convert PRO files using this utility but the resulting ATX may not work reliably for disks that had more advanced protection. a8diskutil makes a best effort to create a working ATX but there's only so much it can do. Keep that in mind while playing with it. Here is the latest version for different platforms (Mac version is the first link): http://www.a8preservation.com/downloads/a8diskutil-darwin-amd64-0.5.0.ziphttp://www.a8preservation.com/downloads/a8diskutil-win-amd64-0.5.0.ziphttp://www.a8preservation.com/downloads/a8diskutil-win-i386-0.5.0.ziphttp://www.a8preservation.com/downloads/a8diskutil-linux-amd64-0.5.0.zip http is simply not something Google or Microsoft will allow for anymore... all dead links ........... 404 Not Found Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DjayBee Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 Updated links and current version: http://assets.a8preservation.com/downloads/a8diskutil-darwin-amd64-0.9.0.zip http://assets.a8preservation.com/downloads/a8diskutil-win-amd64-0.9.0.zip http://assets.a8preservation.com/downloads/a8diskutil-win-i386-0.9.0.zip http://assets.a8preservation.com/downloads/a8diskutil-linux-amd64-0.9.0.zip 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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