Re: making a boot disk on iigs

[Roger Johnstone <rojaws@orcon.net.nz>]

In <20040221050854.15108.00000107@mb-m18.aol.com> Michael J. Mahon wrote:
> Jeff Blakeney replied:
> 
>> There are some copy protection
>>schemes that don't store data in normal files, they just put it into
>>blocks or sectors on the disk with no directory entry.  It is possible
>>that these blocks or sectors are still getting marked as being used in
>>the block or sector table but it would be nice to have the option to
>>just copy everything instead of just the stuff marked as being used.
> 
> If data is stored in blocks/sectors not marked used, then the disk
> had better be write-protected, or the data isn't long for this world.  ;-)

I've seen one very good example of why sometimes you do want a whole-
disk archive. Years ago I was looking at a demo disk, from the FTA I 
think. For some reason I was using a utility on the disk and found some 
deleted files which I could undelete. They were programs left over from 
the development, and full of all sorts of interesting things. Software 
archaeology!

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Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand

Apple II - FutureCop:LAPD - iMac Game Wizard
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