Rufus dos 冷知識

Rufus 是一個製作 dos 開機碟的工具。

原本以為 Rufus 是把開機相關檔案包進 .h 檔案裡，後來看到網路上的文章，才知道 Rufus 的 MS-DOS 是從 Windows 裡的檔案解壓縮出來的，﹝C:\Windows\system32\diskcopy.dll﹞。

這也解釋了為什麼在 Windows 10 下無法製作 MS-DOS 開機碟，因為 Windows 10 已經沒有這個檔案了。

src/dos.c

/*
 * Rufus: The Reliable USB Formatting Utility
 * DOS boot file extraction, from the FAT12 floppy image in diskcopy.dll
 * (MS WinME DOS) or from the embedded FreeDOS resource files
 * Copyright © 2011-2017 Pete Batard 
 *
 * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with this program.  If not, see .
 */

/* Memory leaks detection - define _CRTDBG_MAP_ALLOC as preprocessor macro */