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Re: Disk transfers help please



Simon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  Here's the story: my brother is going to sell an Apple IIe computer
> that had been in the attic for years and that we bought back from
> someone years ago, and never used. So I don't know anything about Apple
> computers, and thought though that it would be cool to transfer the
> disks to PC before selling them.
> 
>  I have NO serial port on the Apple II, and the computer will be sold
> next week so there's some kind of hurry ;-) So I've plugged a 5.25 drive
> to my PC and I'm starting using DISK2FDI.
>  The problem is that I don't know anything about the disks structure and
> I have some questions:
> 1/ There are 2 sides on each disk, apparently they are separted (i.e. if
> I flip the disk in the drive, it will boot with another program. Does
> DISK2FDI make an image of both sides, or only side A ?
> 2/ Most of the B-Sides seem to be unrecognized on the 5.25 PC drive -
> once I have inserted the disk, the drive never stops, and the transfer
> tells me all the sectors are bad. Am I doing something wrong ?
> 
>  Thanks in advance for any help, I'm lost - actually ignorant :-)
> 
> Simon
> PS: I'm especially trying to transfer the French version of Wizardry,
> "Sorcellerie", which is nowhere to be found on the Net it seems...


I Would Recommend reading this
http://www.callapple.org/magazine/2002may/ADT.pdf

then going to this page to download the software
http://apple2.org.za/gswv/a2zine/Sel/ADTWin.html

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