HD Floppies in DD Drives

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Wed Nov 12 16:34:38 1997

On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Uncle Roger wrote:

> At 05:45 PM 11/10/97 +0000, you wrote:
> >> (i.e., not looked for) the software to do it. Can someone recommend a PC
> >> program to read 5.25" (and 3.5"?) diskettes and make images of them?
>
> >There is... look into the simtel site and d/l several of them to try
> >out. Some are DOS, win3.x and win95.
> >I prefer to archive all of my disks to that dos based imager.
>
> I like DOS best too. I'll check it out. Thanks!
>
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>

There is a file on IBM's site (www.pc.ibm.com(?)) in pub/pccbs/os2-ews/
called loaddf.zip. It contains several files including savedskf.exe and
loaddskf.exe which create and restore a DOS disk to an image file.

It was written by some IBM employees and IBM used to use it to create and
distribute reference disks and such. They founf, however, that their
typical customer was incapable of reading and understanding rather simple
instructions needed to make it work. It has been superseded by an
advanced version of Sydex CopyQM that will make self-extracting image
files. (Is there a message there about typical IBM users?)

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