sbolton Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 Ouch my mind has gone blank! Can anyone tell me the name of the program that clones Floppy disks?Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nerwin Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 Hmm, You could just copy the contents on the computer and then copying them back over to another floppy disk.Why are you using Floppy disk anyway? Well I mean what are they anyways? I personally would use partition magic.It feels like its becoming hard to find software dedicated to cloning floppy disksYou could try this I guess:http://www.winimage.com/winimage.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James_A Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 Do you mean DiskCopy?DISKCOPY [drive1: [drive2:]] [/V] /V Verifies that the information is copied correctly.The two floppy disks must be the same type.You may specify the same drive for drive1 and drive2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nerwin Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 @ James_AThat would work too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 A clone of a floppy is NOT a copy of a floppy.DCOPY/DCOPYNT:http://users.telenet.be/jbosman/applications.htmljaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twig123 Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 I've always have used "Floppy Image":http://www.towodo.com/products/floppyimage/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James_A Posted October 31, 2008 Share Posted October 31, 2008 A clone of a floppy is NOT a copy of a floppy.Yes, you're absolutely right for anything after DOS 3.3, because Microsoft utilities change the serial number. Now I remember why I wrote my own.How about John Newbigin's RawWrite / dd for Windows, then?http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted October 31, 2008 Share Posted October 31, 2008 How about John Newbigin's RawWrite / dd for Windows, then?http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite/Sure, ANY "dd-like" application will do.Personally I use the already linked to programs for floppy work, and the following ones:Command line:DSFOK:http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nulifetv/freezip/freeware/GUI:Roadkil's Apps:http://www.roadkil.net/listing.php?Category=2http://www.roadkil.net/program.php?ProgramID=12http://www.roadkil.net/program.php?ProgramID=22And of course VFD and VDK:http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.htmlhttp://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vdk.htmljaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponch Posted October 31, 2008 Share Posted October 31, 2008 2 more;this one is very light and very efficient (lets you re-re-re-check a floppy before saving the image)http://www.klaus-hartnegg.de/e/software/hdcp20ae.zip(at the time, under DOS, I used the exe alone so I don't know what the other files are for) This one makes an exe for easy deployment:http://pagesperso-orange.fr/dvalot/emtcopy.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andromeda43 Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 Making a copy of a floppy disk is probably the easiest in any version of MS Windows.In MyComputer, right click on drive A: and in the context menu, click "Copy Disk.... "Just follow the on-screen prompts to finish the job.Or if you're working strictly in the DOS environment.....Diskcopy A: A:will get the job done nicely.In this age of micro-computers and terabyte HD's, the lowly floppy disk is just asuseful as ever. My last computer had twin floppy drives in it and my current PC has just one. My new MSI mobo only supports ONE floppy drive.What a disappointment that was! I sell at least one USB Floppy Drive a month to people with new computers that come with NOfloppy drive. Many people still have doc's and family pictures stored on floppy disks, that they need access to.Viva la Floppy!B) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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