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Help to Make Backups of my Floppy Disks for Dos 6.2

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First post, by GabrielKnight123

Posted on 2018-02-12, 15:20

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I have bought Dos 6.2 it came unopened still shrink wrapped and now that I have used it and it works as they should I would like to make backups of the 3 disks so I can put them away and just use the copies but when I tried to copy the full contents to a folder I made on c:\ and then coppied over to the new floppies the files were all on the new floppies but disk one will not boot from it when trying to install using it, I have tried a format of the A: disk with "DISK 1" I dont remember right now of the exact number of spaces but there was about 6 or 7, this did not work and I tried "Disk1" with no space. Is there something im missing? If this post is considered as piracy please tell me and please accept my apologies.

Reply 1 of 3, by gca

Posted on 2018-02-12, 15:38

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The command you are looking for is diskcopy, like this

diskcopy a: b:

If you don't want to do that you can make the first disk bootable using the sys command like this:

sys a:

Reply 2 of 3, by Jo22

Posted on 2018-02-12, 19:47

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Aas gca said. 😀

Alternatively, there are free- and shareware programs, too.

QCopy, Disk Copy Fast, VGACopy, etc.

For Windows, there's also the popular WinImage.

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