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by **christos karayianni** » Fri, 30 Jul 1999 04:00:00

I tried to create a second copy of my startup disk using the diskcopy
utility from DOS. It is the only one I know that copies disks sector by
sector. I didn't make it - I took a message illegal operation or something.
Is there another way to make it from Windows or Linux ?

christos

by **Abdullah Ramazanogl** » Fri, 30 Jul 1999 04:00:00

> I tried to create a second copy of my startup disk using the diskcopy
> utility from DOS. It is the only one I know that copies disks sector by
> sector. I didn't make it - I took a message illegal operation or something.
> Is there another way to make it from Windows or Linux ?

> christos

Kalimera Christos,

"dd" command is excellent in these kind of tasks.

For saving a diskette image in /root/mydikettes directory, I use :

dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/root/mydiskettes/cnet-util-dkt.1 bs=1440k

To create a diskette from a saved image :

dd if=/root/mydiskettes/cnet-util-dkt.1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k

I usually save my important diskettes this way, to be able to recreate
it back when (not "if" :-) the diskette builds media errors.

Kalispera,
--
Abdullah Ramazanoglu ( aramazanoglu AT demirbank DOT com DOT tr )

by **Jeff** » Sat, 31 Jul 1999 04:00:00

In DOS you will want to use the rawrite utility you can find on the cd with
your distrubution package on it. Generally I don;t even install rawrite I
just

c:\> d:\rawrite d:\disk.image a:\

or something like that

try
c:\ d:\rawrite(or whereever your cd drive is and where-ever the rawrite
utility is on the disk)
that will give you the lo down on how to use rawrite

>I tried to create a second copy of my startup disk using the diskcopy
>utility from DOS. It is the only one I know that copies disks sector by
>sector. I didn't make it - I took a message illegal operation or something.
>Is there another way to make it from Windows or Linux ?

> christos

by **Stefan Baue** » Sat, 31 Jul 1999 04:00:00

Try dd on linux. (dd if=<input file> of=<output file>

in your case
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/startup.image
insert new floppy
dd if=/tmp/startup.image of=/dev/fd0

Stefan

christos karayiannis schrieb:

Quote:
> I tried to create a second copy of my startup disk using the diskcopy
> utility from DOS. It is the only one I know that copies disks sector by
> sector. I didn't make it - I took a message illegal operation or something.
> Is there another way to make it from Windows or Linux ?

> christos

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