Archiving Floppies - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

23 Sep 2001

Michael B. Brutman wrote:
...
  For copyprotected diskettes I'm using Teledisk,
although I don't
 trust it entirely.  Teledisk is also good for damaged diskettes, 
I stopped trusting TD once I found that it would
not restore 5-1/4" 360k floppies on my machine -
if only I'd found out before archiving 50-odd
of them that way. It seemed OK with the 3-1/2"
floppies, but I'd stopped trusting it by then!
...
  which the raw binary formats can't handle.  (The
damage looks like
 copy protection.)  The downside to teledisk is the portability ...
 I'll need a DOS machine forever to read the data.  I don't have this
 problem with the raw binary images. 
Exactly. I'd prefer a program that was able
to cope with any MS-DOS floppy and had
a documented "image" format. I'm still
looking, although the DR-DOS DISKCOPY is
probably what I will use once I
start again.
Antonio