floppy disc copier program

[royaldank]

I have a floppy key disk here for a program I recently bought. I'm trying to make a back up of the disk because you need the floppy everytime you play and I'm afraid it might get damaged at some point.

Now, it's been quite some time since I've had to copy a floppy and worry about some kind of protection. Anyone know of any programs that might be able to pull it off? I used something called DiskCopy last night and it would give me an error right before it finished writing the new disk, so there must be some sort of protection on there.

Again, this is for backup purposes...it's not like this floopy disk has the world's greatest game on there or anything.

 

[The Stigenator]

check this site out.. www.bootdisk.com

 

[BooneRebel]

dskimage is a pretty common one.

 

[royaldank]

Nothing has worked so far...

I tried DskImage, RawWrite, RawWriteNT, and dCopy. All crap out at 97% saying it cannot find sector. Must be a bad sector on the disk preventing copying...arrrg. Oh well, I'm about done trying...but if you have any more guesses, I'd love to hear them.

 

[Czar]

Use diskcopy in dos

first scandisk the disk though

 

[EagleKeeper]

Some floppy disks have a special sector written to by the nmanufacturer (like is done for the PS2 DVDs).

A floppy drive can not be instructed to write to that sector. This is either due to the drive physically or the standard floppy write S/W in the OS.

 

[royaldank]

<< Use diskcopy in dos

first scandisk the disk though >>



I can't run scandisk on there b/c the disk currently works and I don't want to ruin it. I remember back in the day having bad sectors on a disk was popular copy protection for floppies.

I did try plain old diskcopy, and while it still errored on one of the last sectors, it copied the rest of disk, I think. I compared the two disks afterwards and they were the same size. Most of the files are hidden somehow, so I can't check the files. (yes, I have all/hidden files enabled) You can even copy the folder from the disk to your HD and see only 1 file on your HD. But, if you copy that folder from the HD back to another floppy, you'll see a couple extra file names as it's transferring the files.

Interesting.

 

[911paramedic]

Use diskcopy in dos

diskcopy a: a:

 

[beat mania]

search for an old dos program called 'disk copy fast'/'dcf'