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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: help with DISKCOPY
Message-ID: <1449@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jun 89 03:22:53 GMT
References: <1815@taux01.UUCP>
Reply-To: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Organization: Rick's Home Grown Unix; Portland, OR
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In article <1815@taux01.UUCP> cdddta@tasu76.UUCP (David Deitcher) writes:
<A friend of mine is writing a book on a pc. He copied a game for his
<child from a floppy on to his work floppy using the DISKCOPY command.
<All of the sudden, three weeks worth of work were gone. Is there
<any software that can help him recover his original stuff or is
<it gone forever?

It's gone forever...

DISKCOPY does a sector-by-sector copy. In effect it *reformats* the
destination floppy with the data from the source floppy. All the source 
sectors are read and written to the destination floppy. So his data has
been written over. 
-- 
Leonard Erickson		...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard
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