Can you say Frisbee <G>.

Diskcopy will copy byte for byte and in the same location exactly. So any
errors are copied. Furthermore, if there is a bad sector on the target disk,
Diskcopy will attempt to bit information there and move on. Of course if it
really is a bad sector the information will not write and you now have a
file on the target with missing information. That is why I always use Norton
File Manager to diskcopy and say verify. It is amazing how many times it
gets an error reading. Some of which are recoverable and others are not.

If the data is extremely valuable and/or il-replacable, there are companies
that specialize in data recover but it is costly.

Daniel Wysocki
Twin*.*Star Computers
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-----Original Message-----

>I have a "logically" damaged floppy.
>     No physical damage.
>My question is: Would a "DISKCOPY" of this disk
>be a TRUE binary copy - byte for byte - including
>the bad FAT tables, illegal characters, bad directory
>structures, etc?  Or would "DISKCOPY" read the disk
>in DOS and try to make a "DOS LEGAL" clone of
>the disk?  Can you do a BINARY "DISKCOPY"?
>I would like to get the exact damaged contents
>of this disk on to several floppies to have several
>tries at a full recovery in several different
>utilities.  PS: This is a "working floppy"
>of unique files.  See other message about
>WEB pages on floppies.   Rick

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