Floppy Copy

[Stuart]

A while ago a Tech friend of mine gave me a floppy disk which I find
invaluable when it comes to reformatting my drive and doing a few other
things like partitioning etc , I have tried to copy this floppy disk and it
copies ok but it doesn't work , I suppose it is protected in some way .. is
there a program that will copy this disk in its entirety ?

 

[madmax]

A while ago a Tech friend of mine gave me a floppy disk which I find
invaluable when it comes to reformatting my drive and doing a few other
things like partitioning etc , I have tried to copy this floppy disk and it
copies ok but it doesn't work , I suppose it is protected in some way .. is
there a program that will copy this disk in its entirety ?

Yes, you can use WinImage to make a copy and write it on a
different disk.
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[Wayne]

A while ago a Tech friend of mine gave me a floppy disk which I find
invaluable when it comes to reformatting my drive and doing a few
other things like partitioning etc , I have tried to copy this floppy
disk and it copies ok but it doesn't work , I suppose it is protected
in some way .. is there a program that will copy this disk in its
entirety ?

You shouldn't need any additional software to do this, but you must first
create the destination disk as a bootable or system disk. Assuming
you're running Windows, insert a blank disk and right click on the drive
letter in Explorer. Select the Format option. When the format windows
appears, there should be a checkbox to select "Create an MS-DOS Startup
Disk" or "Copy System Files". Once you formatted the diskette in this
manner, simply copy the file from the source diskette onto the newly
formatted diskette.

 

[Chaos Master]

A while ago a Tech friend of mine gave me a floppy disk which I find
invaluable when it comes to reformatting my drive and doing a few other
things like partitioning etc , I have tried to copy this floppy disk and it
copies ok but it doesn't work , I suppose it is protected in some way .. is
there a program that will copy this disk in its entirety ?

WinImage, or the Rawrite utility for Windows - it also allows you to create a
disk image. The latter one can be found at
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwritewin-0.7.zip

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[bambam]

A while ago a Tech friend of mine gave me a floppy disk which I
find invaluable when it comes to reformatting my drive and doing a
few other things like partitioning etc , I have tried to copy this
floppy disk and it copies ok but it doesn't work , I suppose it is
protected in some way .. is there a program that will copy this
disk in its entirety ?

Hi Stuart, Floppy Image might do what you want-

http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32/floppyimage.html

 

[bambam]

Yes, you can use WinImage to make a copy and write it on a
different disk.

First you recommend shareware in a freeware group, then your sig has a
long list of freeware programs that you use and recommend! You
obviously understand the concept of freeware, you're in a freeware
group, and yet you recommend a shareware program, why?

 

[Phred]

WinImage, or the Rawrite utility for Windows - it also allows you to create a
disk image. The latter one can be found at
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwritewin-0.7.zip

I'm curious. Why do you expect those programs will work if simple
DISKCOPY won't? Are they able to do what the old COPY2PC did with
protected 360K 5.25" floppies all those years ago?


Cheers, Phred.

 

[Ken Taylor]

I'm curious. Why do you expect those programs will work if simple
DISKCOPY won't? Are they able to do what the old COPY2PC did with
protected 360K 5.25" floppies all those years ago?


Cheers, Phred.

I'd suggest diskcopy is the answer - if the OP was just using 'copy' then
they wouldn't get the system files etc.

Ken

 

[Mr TUBEAMPS]

i had this problem once.
all i did was to copy the disk to the hard drive,
make shore you show all files on the disk,
there maybe some hiden in there.
when thats done, copy all of it back to
a new floppy, showing all files.
it worked for me.

john

 

[MM]

i had this problem once.
all i did was to copy the disk to the hard drive,
make shore you show all files on the disk,
there maybe some hiden in there.
when thats done, copy all of it back to
a new floppy, showing all files.
it worked for me.

john

Some protect their programms by emulating bad sectors on a floppy, most disk
image and copy programs will ignore a bad sector. There were some older dos
based copy programs that would do a sector by sector copy. But that would be
illeagal to copy a protected floppy wouldn't it ?? If you indeed own the
floppy look for an older program called (I think) disk copy fast.

MM