Re: Apple Disk Question

[dracosilver_furcadia@yahoo.com (Jonathan Herr)]

mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) wrote in message news:<20040128031940.22006.00000640@mb-m22.aol.com>...
> Jonathan Herr wrote:
> 
> >I am a relative nOOb to this system, and need to know that if i have a
> >disk that when in the boot disk (the 5 1/4 drive) and it says 'Unable
> >to load Prodos', if it's safe to just copy the contents of the drive
> >to another 5 1/4 disk drive (just drag & drop)?
> 
> Should work fine.
> 
> That message means that you have attempted to boot a
> ProDOS-formatted disk that does not have the ProDOS
> operating system on it.
> 
> -michael
> 
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So that means that i can just copy the contents (files) to another
prodos formatted floppy?  Cause the disk's jacket is starting to crack
(it wasn't my disk originally.)  I got it from a library that was
getting rid of it's old apple II software.