Re: need to diskcopy 1.2Mb to 1.44Mb, any ideas?

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From: Santosh S Philips
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 1990 00:04

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Re: The question about copying 1.2M to 1.44M 
    from alan@km4ba.UUCP

I too misplaced the original article...
If there is copy-protection xcopy will not work.  The best solution
is to use a newer version >=5.0 of COPYIIPC.EXE   .  Central Point
Software is the company that puts it out. (I have no affiliation to
them!)

Copyiipc CAN make copies of software (even most protected) using unlike
drives.  To be sucessful the SOURCE drive has to be <= the size of the
TARGET drive.  A draw back is that the new "COPY" will be "seen" as, in
this case, as a 1.2M as opposed to the actual 1.44M it was intended to
be. (ref. to DOS disks...CHKDSK will verify this) .  I think this is
bacause the software is a track/sector copier.

I have seen it used to backup  360k to 1.44M drives...so 1.2M to 1.44M
probably would work.

Cheers
Santosh

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From: sphilips@sun.udel.edu (Santosh S Philips)
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Subject: Re: need to diskcopy 1.2Mb to 1.44Mb, any ideas?
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