Re: Disk imaging

[mystix@direct.ca@direct.ca]

In <38B0B4F7.ED03D39@intergate.bc.ca>, Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca> writes:

>Disk Copy is a Mac program that copies disks, makes disk images and will turn
>those disk images into floppies. It's free from Apple computer. The IIgs program
>Clone will also turn those images into disks.

OK, got it. I've been working with it for a few hours now. I've noticed that it
has choked on some copy protected stuff, and disks that were actually damaged.
Interestingly enough though, in general most games were still intact, but more
recent stuff, all of which are utilities and applications have had a larger
percentage of disk failures.

>> Heh, I'm afraid I had a part of why that collection was that big. I wonder
>> how many people remember the dreaded "Herbster" uploads.
>
>There's still quite a few members from back then still about, although most
>have crossed over to the Mac side. Lorne Walton, Gareth Jones, Al Crout,
>Don La Rose, amongst others

All names I remember well.

>> That's an idea. Is there anything that can be done with disks that refuse to mount?
>
>What I did was first try making a bit copy with CopyII+ then if the copy wouldn't
>work I'd next try simply copying the files onto another disk.
>I also used the utilities in prosel 16 extensively especially the volume repair.

I've tried those options with varying degrees of success with the exception of
Prosel16 since I never bought that one.

>Fortunately almost none of the club library was copy protected so that didn't enter

I wanted to make a note about the club library, all the uploads that I made and
contributed were either shareware or freeware downloaded from cba2 between
1990-1992.

>into it. I keep thinking about doing the same with my own personal software but
>there's so much of it and it's scattered throughout my apartment and storage room.

Well I've always kept everything in those plastic disk boxes. I have stacks of them.
But only the commercial software I've bought over the years. All the shareware
ended up in loose unlabeled disks. I dread looking through those now.