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From: cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: need to diskcopy 1.2Mb to 1.44Mb, any ideas?
Keywords: floppy, 1.44, 1.2
Message-ID: <3ekwN1w162w@cybrspc>
Date: 14 Aug 90 16:45:49 GMT
References: <153@km4ba.UUCP>
Organization: Villa CyberSpace, Minneapolis, MN
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alan@km4ba.UUCP (Alan Barrow) writes:

> 
> For obscure reasons I won't bore ya'll with, I need to diskcopy
> some 1.2Mb floppies to 1.44Mb. DOS diskcopy works fine from 
> 1.2 to 1.2, even though the disk are not dos disks.

I'm afraid you're out of luck. Diskcopy makes, in effect, a photograph
of the original disk on the target disk. This includes the physical
arrangement of the data on the disk. (that's why you make a copy of a
damaged disk with diskcopy and attempt recovery on the copy, rather than
the original) 1.2Mb and 1.44Mb disks are arranged differently to begin
with... so the 'picture' of the 1.2 won't fit on the 1.44.

If those boring details include moving some copy-protected software to
3.5" disks, the answer may be to contact the company and have them
supply the 3.5's. If the disks aren't DOS in the first place, you may
not be able to do this at all.
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