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Re: Protected floppies? [Was: Floppy Copy]

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From: Mr TUBEAMPS
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 00:56
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i had this problem once.
all i did was to copy the disk to the hard drive,
make shore you show all files on the disk,
there maybe some hiden in there.
when thats done, copy all of it back to
a new floppy, showing all files.
it worked for me.

john

"Phred" <ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:2j5nkvFssggkU4@uni-berlin.de...
> 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.
>
> --
> ppnerkDELETE@THISyahoo.com.INVALID
>
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