Exact clone of diskette ?

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is there a way to perform an exact clone of a diskette ? I mean not
file-based by low-level clone as for hard drives imaging.
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if I remember well you could clone or copy every floppy with copyiipc and
maybe copyqm.

The absolute freeware fanatics in this newsgroup don't allow me or somebody
else to mention or discuss non-freeware programs.
Copyiipc.exe is maybe already 15 years old, so you have to have a little bit
of luck to find it.
There was also a copyiipc card, but in that case you need a very very old
pc.
Maybe a msdos newsgroup could help you to get the program. The program is
not freeware, but bying this program is also no option.
 
Yes and have tested Ok.
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What did you test, did it work to make perfect copies of floppies, no
matter what the floppy looked like? Or did you just test if it worked
on floppies in general?

After the continued discussions and new suggestions on this issue, what
are the conclusions? Which program is the best? Or did you find more
than one program which creates perfect copies of all kinds of floppy
disks?

If we want to use one of the programs and throw away the rest of them,
which should we save and use?
Or must we save and use more than one, for different cases?
 
By exact clone, I am hoping you mean that it can get around this problem.

Windows 95 and Office 97 floppies use a special compression in order to fit
more than 1.44MB on the disk. If you copy some of those disks to your hard
drive and then to a diskette, often you get a message that there is not
enough space on the floppy. I believe a disk-to-disk copy without going to
the hard drive first is the only way to back up those diskettes. Or would
the cloning program be better?

I should have done this a long time ago. Several of my oem disks are no
longer readable.
 
SeaMaiden said:
By exact clone, I am hoping you mean that it can get around this problem.

Windows 95 and Office 97 floppies use a special compression in order to
fit more than 1.44MB on the disk. If you copy some of those disks to your
hard
drive and then to a diskette, often you get a message that there is not
enough space on the floppy. I believe a disk-to-disk copy without going to
the hard drive first is the only way to back up those diskettes. Or would
the cloning program be better?
I should have done this a long time ago. Several of my oem disks are no
longer readable.
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There are some utilities on the winimage site - 1.68 formatter - floppy disk
copier which might do the job.

http://www.winimage.com/othertl.htm
 
There are some utilities on the winimage site - 1.68 formatter - floppy
disk copier which might do the job.

http://www.winimage.com/othertl.htm
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Here is another one which might recover your files

FlopShow is a file recovery + file undelete utility for fat - 12 partitions
(floppies).
Like any other recovery/undeletion utility this program also don't offer you
100 % recovery or undeletion .
The recovered/undeleted files may ( may not be ) corrupt .
This newer version of the program also has options to create floppy disk
images and later to restore it .

http://paradiseprogramming.tripod.com/flopshow.html
 
rich said:
Here is another one which might recover your files

FlopShow is a file recovery + file undelete utility for fat - 12
partitions
(floppies).
Like any other recovery/undeletion utility this program also don't offer
you
100 % recovery or undeletion .
The recovered/undeleted files may ( may not be ) corrupt .
This newer version of the program also has options to create floppy disk
images and later to restore it .

http://paradiseprogramming.tripod.com/flopshow.html
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When I put the disk in the floppy drive, I get the error that the drive is
not accessible, like there is no disk in there.
 
When I put the disk in the floppy drive, I get the error that the drive is
not accessible, like there is no disk in there.
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Don't know if you are using WinXP but I have found it to be very particular
about floppy diskettes. You might have more luck booting to DOS and using
the wimage.exe utility that comes with FDformat (see the winimage site).
This is the only free floppy imager I have found that handles the 21 sectors
per track on 1.68 Mb MDF floppies. Then write the image back to a new disk.

If your disks are corrupt then you might be able to save the files using
file recover from
http://www.pcinspector.de - I have had some success with this in the past
with scrambled disks -
save,then copy back to a 1.68 formatted diskette.
 
the wimage.exe utility that comes with FDformat (see the winimage site).
This is the only free floppy imager I have found that handles the 21 sectors
per track on 1.68 Mb MDF floppies.
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IIRC, and it's been a LONG time, DiskCopyFast allowed you to copy 1.68
meg floppies.
 
Hi,

Speaking about data recovery utilities I suppose Uneraser is the true
choice. It is a DOS utility yet is extremely powerful so that it works
simply great and never failed me, nor it corrupted restored data. That
is a really might utility for bringing lost data back.

http://www.uneraser.com/
 
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