Full copy of Floppy Disk

Ice Rich · 25 Jul 2013 at 15:51

Hi all,

I have an older piece of equipment I use and there is an associated floppy disk with it that I want to backup as the disk is becoming old.

I've bought a USB floppy drive and select contents on the floppy and copy over to HDD. But, the program on the disk only starts when I run it by double clicking on the floppy file (not from the copied over file). Therefore, there must be something not being copied over?

Can you help please?

Thanks,

Ice Rich · 25 Jul 2013 at 16:08

Yep, just tried that and nothing else is shown.

When the application is run direct from floppy it boots. But when I run that app once it's been copied over, it reports something is missing.

All the files I can see on the floppy have been copied over.

Equipment is an x-ray type system and the disc is for using if there is a problem with unit booting.

Ice Rich · 25 Jul 2013 at 16:37

Thanks guys,

Right this is bizarre. If I copy over the files to another floppy (from HDD-Floppy), the application loads (even when I run it from HDD direct?!, but disk must stay in). Yet as soon as I remove the HDD it fails to load??

Either way, problem looks like it's fixed. As if my original disks fails I can copy the backup from HDD to Floppy again and that should work (hopefully).

Confused why it works like this though, perhaps there is some code that tells the app it should be reading from a:?

Thank you,

Ice Rich · 25 Jul 2013 at 19:43

It's ok really now Bledd.
My main objective was to back up the floppy in event the master disk goes wrong, and that has been achieved albeit with the use of floppy only.

I only need to use the backup in a like-for-like scenario (boot problems) and because of that the format would have needed to be the same in any case (i.e. a floppy).

Edit: my only concern is if all files on the original disk were copied over, I viewed with 'show hidden files and folders' and there was nothing hidden so I presume there could be nothing remaining?