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From: edm@hpfcmdd.hp.com (Ed Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Duplicating System Disk without Format
Message-ID: <84380016@hpfcmdd.hp.com>
Date: 10 Apr 91 15:00:42 GMT
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Organization: HP Mechanical Design Division
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>Is there some other way to do the conversion? Perhaps the system files
>could be copied with some other program.

I just did this as a test.  I used PC Magazine's ATTR.COM to unset the S,H,R
attributes of the two hidden files, copied them first to the other diskette,
then copied COMMAND.COM.  The new diskette booted just fine.