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How to Backup/diskcopy ALL install disks OS/2 WARP V3
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1. How to Backup/diskcopy ALL install disks OS/2 WARP V3
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I want to make a backup copie of all my installation disks of OS/2 WARP V3.
I can only "diskcopy" (under W2K) disk Installation and disk 1. For all the others I get "no files" on the disk.
What can be wrong? How can I copy them?
Date: 17 Jun, 2003 on 07:52
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2. Re:How to Backup/diskcopy ALL install disks OS/2 WARP V3
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the reason why you can't copy the rest of the diskettes is that data is stored in a special format called XDF.
The disks can be copied from os/2 using the XDFCOPY.EXE util.
I think a dos version is included in IBM PC DOS ver 7.0.
I think there once was a copying program called dcf.exe that could also handle this format, but details are a bit foggy since it's quite a long time ago since i was last through that floppy-hell.
Date: 26 Jun, 2003 on 18:25
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3. Re:How to Backup/diskcopy ALL install disks OS/2 WARP V3
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http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-viewer?sh=1&fname=/pub/os2/util/disk/svd120.zip
http://www.bmtmicro.com/BMTCatalog/os2/svdisk.html

I found this link(s) at http://hobbes.nmsu.edu using xdf as a search word. I do not know if it relates to what you are looing for.


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Date: 27 Jun, 2003 on 16:13
How to Backup/diskcopy ALL install disks OS/2 WARP V3
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