17 Jun
2005
17 Jun
'05
6:54 a.m.
On 16 Jun, 2005, at 20:22, Jay West wrote:
Richard wrote...
...
I have no knowledge of the details of Pick, but if it uses
FDISK-compatible partitions it should also use standard sectors. In
that case, it should be possible to copy to a larger disk drive, just
deliberately wasting disk space by not using the extra sectors per
track. It means you would have to do sector-level copying, but unless
the system is really weird it ought to work.
--
-bv
One concern is that I did NOT get any install
disks or docs, and the
hard drive this is on is an ancient one, making funny noises....
Hopefully it'll last a little while....
FYI - Pick/AT uses a totally
nonstandard disk format. However, at
least it obeys FDISK rules and lives in a partition. A replacement
drive would have to be identical, and your copy would have to be "bit
level", nothing that tries to understand a "filesystem".