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First post, by pchp

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hello
i want make a backup of old floppies. i'm looking for a program that works in ms-dos.
i tried winimage 2.0 for windows 3.1 but krnl386.exe halt
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Reply 1 of 8, by NitroX infinity

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Why not put the contents of the floppy in a zip or rar file and name the file the same as the volumelabel of the floppy?

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Reply 3 of 8, by Dominus

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Reply 4 of 8, by DonutKing

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I use RAREAD or RAWRITE. Get them here
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/fre … iles/util/disk/

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Reply 5 of 8, by keropi

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I use HD-Copy for a loooong time... http://esca.atomki.hu/paradise/dos/hdcopy-en.html
Has many floppy-related functions 😉

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Reply 6 of 8, by pchp

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thanks. i'm going to test the options.
the disks are 5.25 360 Kb

NitroX infinity wrote:

Why not put the contents of the floppy in a zip or rar file and name the file the same as the volumelabel of the floppy?

that way you lose the disk metadata.

Reply 8 of 8, by tayyare

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I remember using DCF (Disk Copy Fast) and being pretty much happy with it. Shareware version was fully functional but with nagging secreens if I remember correctly.

There was also VGACopy with fancy Amiga like screens and support for non-standart formats like 1.68 or 1.80MB

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