I have a floppy disk that is a key disk for a program. When I install the program I have to insert the floppy to get my legally owned 50 user licenses. If something goes wrong and I have to reinstall, I have to get ahold of the software manufacturer to get another key disk and they read me the riot act bla bla bla.
I've tried copying the floppy, but a copy does not work. It has some kind of copy protection. Here is some infos about the original disk:
1,457,664 bytes total disk space.
22,016 bytes in 3 hidden files.
134,656 bytes in 3 files.
9,216 bytes in bad sectors.
1,291,776 bytes available on disk.
512 bytes in each allocation unit.
2,847 total allocation units on disk.
Once the disk has been used, only one visble file has been altered and it will not work again.
I searched the forum to see if I could find a high-end floppy copy program that will get the bad sectors and all. I came across this post, but it looks like the attachment has been deleted.
http://www.cdrbase.com/showthread.p...ght=copy+floppy
If anyone can help me I'll be thankful.
I've tried copying the floppy, but a copy does not work. It has some kind of copy protection. Here is some infos about the original disk:
1,457,664 bytes total disk space.
22,016 bytes in 3 hidden files.
134,656 bytes in 3 files.
9,216 bytes in bad sectors.
1,291,776 bytes available on disk.
512 bytes in each allocation unit.
2,847 total allocation units on disk.
Once the disk has been used, only one visble file has been altered and it will not work again.
I searched the forum to see if I could find a high-end floppy copy program that will get the bad sectors and all. I came across this post, but it looks like the attachment has been deleted.
http://www.cdrbase.com/showthread.p...ght=copy+floppy
If anyone can help me I'll be thankful.