23 Sep
2001
23 Sep
'01
6:49 p.m.
Michael B. Brutman wrote:
For copyprotected diskettes I'm using Teledisk,
although I don't
trust it entirely. Teledisk is also good for damaged diskettes,
I stopped trusting TD once I found that it would
not restore 5-1/4" 360k floppies on my machine -
if only I'd found out before archiving 50-odd
of them that way. It seemed OK with the 3-1/2"
floppies, but I'd stopped trusting it by then!
which the raw binary formats can't handle. (The
damage looks like
copy protection.) The downside to teledisk is the portability ...
I'll need a DOS machine forever to read the data. I don't have this
problem with the raw binary images.
Exactly. I'd prefer a program that was able
to cope with any MS-DOS floppy and had
a documented "image" format. I'm still
looking, although the DR-DOS DISKCOPY is
probably what I will use once I
start again.
Antonio