Protected floppies? [Was: Floppy Copy]

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From: Phred
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 13:31

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In article <MPG.1b372d1a91b0b45c989ae5@130.133.1.4>, 
renan.birckREMOVETHIS@ibestvip.com.br wrote:
> ("Stuart" <serel@<REMOVE>xtra.co.nz>) caused an illegal operation in module 
><9R6zc.1959$s52.67504@news.xtra.co.nz>:
>> A while ago a Tech friend of mine gave me a floppy disk which I find
>> invaluable when it comes to reformatting my drive and doing a few other
>> things like partitioning etc , I have tried to copy this floppy disk and it
>> copies ok but it doesn't work , I suppose it is protected in some way .. is
>> there a program that will copy this disk in its entirety ?
>
>WinImage, or the Rawrite utility for Windows - it also allows you to create a 
>disk image. The latter one can be found at 
>http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwritewin-0.7.zip

I'm curious.  Why do you expect those programs will work if simple 
DISKCOPY won't?  Are they able to do what the old COPY2PC did with 
protected 360K 5.25" floppies all those years ago?


Cheers, Phred.

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