10 Nov
1997
10 Nov
'97
11:27 a.m.
At 08:43 AM 11/9/97 -0600, you wrote:
Here's a silly question, but one I've never
understood:
Not that silly; but I'm afraid I don't recall the answer. 8^)
Since some of the software for my "old"
(first generation PC) computers
is on 5 1/4" disks of dubious condition, I would like to make copies
I think the best way to do this is to make disk images. I know the Mac can
do this with Mac disks, and I'm sure the PC can too, but I've not found
(i.e., not looked for) the software to do it. Can someone recommend a PC
program to read 5.25" (and 3.5"?) diskettes and make images of them?
This, I think, is where syquest drives (and similar) come in *very* handy.
You can store the images on a removeable disk and not bother taking up fixed
disk space for them.
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10 Nov
10 Nov
6:45 a.m.
At 08:43 AM 11/9/97 -0600, you wrote:
There is... look into the simtel site and d/l several of them to try
out. Some are DOS, win3.x and win95.
I prefer to archive all of my disks to that dos based imager.
Troll
Here's a silly question, but one I've
never understood:
Not that silly; but I'm afraid I don't recall the answer. 8^)
Since some of the software for my "old"
(first generation PC) computers
is on 5 1/4" disks of dubious condition, I would like to make copies
I think the best way to do this is to make disk images. I know the Mac can
do this with Mac disks, and I'm sure the PC can too, but I've not found
(i.e., not looked for) the software to do it. Can someone recommend a PC
program to read 5.25" (and 3.5"?) diskettes and make images of them?
This, I think, is where syquest drives (and similar) come in *very* handy.
You can store the images on a removeable disk and not bother taking up fixed
disk space for them.
--------------------------------------------------------------------- O-
Uncle Roger "There is pleasure pure in being mad
sinasohn(a)ricochet.net that none but madmen know."
Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates
San Francisco, California http://www.crl.com/~sinasohn/
11 Nov
11 Nov
2:35 p.m.
Since some of
the software for my "old" (first generation PC) computers
is on 5 1/4" disks of dubious condition, I would like to make copies
I think the best way to do this is to make disk images. I know the Mac can
do this with Mac disks, and I'm sure the PC can too, but I've not found
(i.e., not looked for) the software to do it. Can someone recommend a PC
program to read 5.25" (and 3.5"?) diskettes and make images of them?
7:29 a.m.
On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Riccardo Romagnoli wrote:
>I think the best way to do this is to make disk
images. I know the Mac can
>do this with Mac disks, and I'm sure the PC can too, but I've not found
>(i.e., not looked for) the software to do it. Can someone recommend a PC
>program to read 5.25" (and 3.5"?) diskettes and make images of them?
CopyQm is capable to take FDD images and store them in
files:it works with
5.25" too.
Unixes do this real easy:
dd if=/dev/<floppydevice> of=<filename>
8:51 a.m.
Teledisk, by the same vendor of CopyQM, does this very well.
See http://www.sydex.com
It looks like Sydex has discontinued its shareware version of Teledisk.
You may be able to find it in an archive somewhere.
Dave
Riccardo Romagnoli wrote:
CopyQm is capable to take FDD images and store them in files:it works with
5.25" too.
Ciao.
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Classic Computers and Phonecards collector
Forli' - Italy
chemif(a)mbox.queen.it
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Since some
of the software for my "old" (first generation PC) computers
is on 5 1/4" disks of dubious condition, I would like to make copies
I think the best way to do this is to make disk images. I know the Mac can
do this with Mac disks, and I'm sure the PC can too, but I've not found
(i.e., not looked for) the software to do it. Can someone recommend a PC
program to read 5.25" (and 3.5"?) diskettes and make images of them?
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