Re: making a boot disk on iigs

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

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.  ;-)

-michael

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