Program to copy 3.5" floppies
Earnie P
and/or suggestions will be much appreciated.
Earnie P
Earnie P
help is most appreciated.
philo
"Earnie P" <Midi...@adelphia.net> wrote in message
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just copy each floppy to a folder on your HD...
then you can make backup floppies from there any time you need to
Mike Jones
or if exact copies are required use "wimage" or "rawrite" (free download),
or "diskcopy" (in DOS), or any other disk copying or imaging software from
the 80's- i.e. comandline interface.
A popular Windows prog, though not free, is "winimage"
Rick
What kind of problem? Are you having problems reading the disks and
running into a lot of media errors?
You can try resqflpy.exe from http://www.resq.co.il It will create an
image file of a floppy no matter what the read problems are with the
disk. It isn't magic - if the program can't read data or sectors, it
can't read it, and will tell you accordingly. But it *will* still
continue to create the image of the disk. If you are lucky the read
problems may be in unused sectors of the disk or in "slack" regions of a
sector beyond the actual data. Both of those problems are enough to stop
a DOS command like COPY or DISKCOPY in it's tracks. resqflpy will still
copy the disk though, and you may get lucky. In any event, it's a far
better reporting tool of the problems with any given diskette than the
cryptic DOS command messages.
I've used this program to salvage a lot of data from disks when DOS kept
choking on "Abort, Retry, Ignore?" messages. It can't fix the
impossible. But in most cases recovering 90% of the data on a disk is
better than 0%.
Rick