Floppy disk copy and verify program wanted

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Peter Jetson

I'm looking for a program to copy one standard 3.5" floppy disk to
another using a single floppy disk drive, then verify that the copy was
successful, on a computer running Windows 2000.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks, Peter
 
Peter Jetson wrote in said:
I'm looking for a program to copy one standard 3.5" floppy disk to
another using a single floppy disk drive, then verify that the copy was
successful, on a computer running Windows 2000.
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Either use the GUI method already built into the OS, right click
the A: drive in your File Manager (like explorer) and use the COPYDISK
command from the context menu, see:
<http://www.worldstart.com/tips/disk-management/floppycopy.htm>

Or you can use the commandline interface (CLI) as follows:
Open a CMD window and type
diskcopy /?
in the command window - and you should see:

diskcopy /?
Copies the contents of one floppy disk to another.
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.

Thus:
diskcopy A: A: /v

Or use: Rawwrite for windows (GUI) to make a floppy image (read),
and then write it back to a new floppy (write).
<http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite.htm>

Same does the Disk Image program you can find here I think:
<http://www.roadkil.net/>
<http://www.roadkil.net/downloads/DiskImg.zip>

Or you can try:
<http://www.ewetel.net/~vga.software/produkte/vgacp625.zip>
(a DOS GUI utility, not tried copying with it, just ran it to see
that it loads under Win2k...and it does, in a full screen command
window)

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen
 
I'm looking for a program to copy one standard 3.5" floppy disk to
another using a single floppy disk drive, then verify that the copy was
successful, on a computer running Windows 2000.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks, Peter
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Back in DOS, you could run DISKCOPY and DISKCOMP.

In the newer Microsoft O/S's, DISKCOMP seems to have
disappeared.

I have Win98. If Win2000 is similar, use the system
backup/restore to backup the diskette to a file on the
hard disk and then restore it to the scratch diskette.

This won't make an image file but it will verify the
results.

Jack
 
Peter said:
I'm looking for a program to copy one standard 3.5" floppy disk to
another using a single floppy disk drive, then verify that the copy
was successful, on a computer running Windows 2000.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks, Peter
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Floppy Master from www.mirkes.de... very fine program, I use it to make
an image of all floppy's that I get (drivers, bootdisks, etc.)

Dick
 
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