Bryan Parkoff wrote:
Michael,
DSK2FDI can be used on PCs with two floppy drives to capture the "front"
side of a normal 5.25" Apple disk without the need for an Apple II or
Apple disk drive.
Capture the "back" side of a normal 5.25" Apple disk is possible
unless you are very careful not todamage it. Use knife to cut on the
top of folded tab. Remove magentic disk out of protected plastic
coverage. Swap from front to back. Put it back into protected
plastic coverage. You can trick PC floppy drive thinking that back
magetic disk is truly front magentic disk. This way is to check the
hole before it locates the beginning of track 0. It works as before.
Correct, but most people would consider this a destructive approach.
Since it only works for copyable disks in any event, it would be much
more reasonable just to copy the back of the disk to the front of a
"work" disk, then transfer that.
This approach, though, requires a working Apple II and drive.