iso file.minus the ISO9660 part) – RawWrite was a popular Windows tool in the past. time stamps) while copying, there are various things that could have happened (misaligned head, write on HD drive, while DD drive tries to read, and cannot because of different head width).īackups of bootable floppy disks should be done by imaging the entire disk (creating what is essentially an. If your USB drive wrote any kind of information to the original disk (e.g. If it is not so important, the next step is to inspect all the sectors on the USB drive (there are tools for that), and see if they are still good at least on that drive.Īlso, edit your question with more information about the disk - is the floppy itself double density or high density? I assume 3.5" if you have an USB drive for it? If it is very important, don't touch the disk again until you figure out what is wrong, and possibly get help from someone who knows what he is doing. If the original disk now stopped booting, then the next question is how important the system is to you. That's the only way to ensure whatever variant of DOS is on the original disk also ends up on the second disk.
I copied the files from floppy to a usb driveĭon't copy the files, copy the whole floppy. There are no partitions on the floppy, but a floppy can contain a boot sector and a reserved area. I suspect that there is another partition in diskette (as boot partition)
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