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Drive to Drive
The most straightforward way to duplicate is to copy from one drive to another.
This is useful for making a specific number of copies of disks of different
types and sizes. For example, if you want 50 copies of disks, you would select
Duplicate with Copies set to 50.
To Copy from Drive to Drive:
- Go to the Job Window and choose the disk option. Use the [Up] and [Down]
arrow keys to highlight the type of disk you want to copy, or select Auto,
and press [Enter].
- From the Destination option, select the drive to which you want to copy.
- Under Source, indicate the drive from which you want to copy. Source and
Destination can be the same drive or two similar drives.
- In the Job Window, move to the Copies and set the number of copies that you
want to make. If you want DiskDupe to copy continuously until you press [Esc],
enter 0 for the number of copies.
- Highlight Duplicate and press [Enter].
DiskDupe will prompt you to put the master disk in the source drive and the
drive light will turn on. As soon as you close the drive door, DiskDupe will
start reading the disk into your computer's RAM, or memory, using your hard
disk as virtual memory if necessary. This allows DiskDupe to make as many copies
as you want without having to reread the master disk.
When you use DiskDupe with your autoloader, all you need to do is insert a
stack of disks in the input hopper and DiskDupe will control the duplication.
Notes:
- Although you can duplicate 360k disks in a 5½", 1.2Mb drive, it is not
recommended, particularly if the disks might need to be read in a 360k drive.
A 1.2Mb drive writes a narrower track than a 360k drive, so it does not
make a very good 360k duplicate.
- Disks of different types are easily distinguishable. 5½" 360k disks have a
protective ring in the middle, while 5½" 1.2Mb disks do not. 3¼" 720k disks
have a single write-protect notch in the upper right-hand corner; 3¼" 1.4Mb
disks have notches in both corners. The 360k and 720k disks are also referred
to as low-density, while the 1.2Mb and 1.4Mb disks are known as high-density.
- DiskDupe will not successfully copy disks that are copy protected. However,
it will allow you to make copy of protected disks of your own.
Copy Protection
- Although DiskDupe is Dos-based, it will allow you to duplicate disks of other
formats, including Mac high-density, Xenix, Unix, and Midi disks. DiskDupe
can copy Unix disks that have an interleave of 3, but the copies it makes will
have an interleave of 1.
- Some developers distribute software on notchless disks so that they cannot
be overwritten. To write data to such a disk, you will need to obtain a drive
modified for this purpose.
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