Date   : Wed, 20 Apr 2005 23:10:21 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Re: ADFS Disk Copying

Peter Craven <cjl_craves@...> wrote:
> Does anyone know why an ADFS disk cannot be copied to
> another by 'directly' copying the bytes from the
> beginning to end of the disk using OSWORD? When I
> catalogue '$' it shows all files and directories but
> they cannot be loaded/ entered without producing a
> 'Broken directory' error.
> 
> How does the ADFS Utility program 'Backup' get around
> this problem??
 
It should work, as that's essentialls what *BACKUP does.
 
Are you doing, essentially:
 
FOR sector%=0 TO 2*80*16-1
Read sector% from source drive
Write sector% to destination drive
NEXT sector%
 
I'll put a demo together and upload it to my website.
 
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