Having a hard time backing-up my old games from original floppies. Any help
and/or suggestions will be much appreciated.
Earnie P

"Earnie P" <Midi_1948@adelphia.net> wrote in message
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just copy each floppy to a folder on your HD...
then you can make backup floppies from there any time you need to

philo wrote:
or if exact copies are required use "wimage" or "rawrite" (free download),
or "diskcopy" (in DOS), or any other disk copying or imaging software from
the 80's- i.e. comandline interface.

A popular Windows prog, though not free, is "winimage"

Earnie P wrote:
What kind of problem? Are you having problems reading the disks and
running into a lot of media errors?

You can try resqflpy.exe from http://www.resq.co.il It will create an
image file of a floppy no matter what the read problems are with the
disk. It isn't magic - if the program can't read data or sectors, it
can't read it, and will tell you accordingly. But it *will* still
continue to create the image of the disk. If you are lucky the read
problems may be in unused sectors of the disk or in "slack" regions of a
sector beyond the actual data. Both of those problems are enough to stop
a DOS command like COPY or DISKCOPY in it's tracks. resqflpy will still
copy the disk though, and you may get lucky. In any event, it's a far
better reporting tool of the problems with any given diskette than the
cryptic DOS command messages.

I've used this program to salvage a lot of data from disks when DOS kept
choking on "Abort, Retry, Ignore?" messages. It can't fix the
impossible. But in most cases recovering 90% of the data on a disk is
better than 0%.

Rick