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From: se6@cs.vu.nl (Houweling E)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: 5.25 and 3.5 inch diskettes
Message-ID: <976@tjalk.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 1 Apr 88 14:37:54 GMT
Organization: V.U. Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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Keywords: diskcopy


DISK PROBLEM 
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 Does anyone know if it is possible to diskcopy a 5.25 inch diskette
 onto a 3.5 inch floppy ? MS-DOS diskcopy won't do it, but in my opinion
 it should be possible to copy a disk to a HIGHER density diskette like this:
  >> READ sector #0, WRITE sector #0, READ sector #1, WRITE sector #1,...etc..
 
 This should be possible on a machine which has both kinds of drives built-in,
 shouldn't it ? If this is NOT possible, why not ?
 If it IS possible, is there commercially available software which I could use ?
 
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