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hard drive copy program

Years ago I used a software called FastCopy that you can probably find it as
free download on the web. The DOS version was a small program on one
diskette.

ziloo
 
Won't xcopy work with floppies? If I understand Lineman Duke correctly, he basically wants to back up one hard drive on floppies, and then restore the contents on another hard drive. I suppose the computer in question does not allow attaching two hard drives simultaneously. Maybe you will have to look for some backup software.
 
Assuming we do not have much to do with non-accessible system files like under windows, I would definitely use ARJ for that.

Something like:

ARJ a A:backup -r -v1440 -a1 -b2 -hk -js -jt -jiC:\backup.inx -wC:\

(-v1440 for 1.44 mb disks)

should do it nicely (use ARJ /? to check on the parameters)
 
Ayep, I was thinking about some archiving software too, but couldn't remember which one spans over several floppies. Somewhere I have a set of 720K disks containing an ARJ archive with a pirate copy of XTree Gold, my favourite MS/DOS file manager of the day.
 
Yeah, well. Considering that it took at least 6-7 years from that I obtained the software until I owned my first PC compatible, it wasn't much of evaluation. Besides, by then DOS was no longer my first choice of operating system.

Enough off-topic. ARJ as suggested by Jorg should do the job quite well, and save a few floppies compared to any backup system without compression.
 
Altough NC and Xtree are actually better, I stuck with PCtools for a long time.
Just because I was used to it
 
well i screwed up the hard drive its not formated and yes i can only hook up one drivei tried norton ghost but i ran out of disk lol (i stoped at 187) and ws hoping to find somthing that yuses less disk than the 218 it wanted
 
I never had the patience to try to use floppies to clone a hard drive.

I used to use a null modem cable and a DOS file transfer program called Brooklyn Bridge by Fifth Generation Systems. It was especially handy because you could put one machine into a mode where the entire transfer process could be controlled from the other.

Or, if the machine is on a network and you have an NFS server (like a Linux or BSD server) with a partition you can write to, you could use XFS and XCOPY to clone the drive contents. Once you've replaced the drive with a bigger one, just reverse the process to copy everything back.

Andy
 
also somthing i forgot to say is the drive is split up and compressed by drive space which has also caused a problem and i dont have space to expand it.
 
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