Re: [WinMac] Disk Copy for PC?
Peter Mannheim(pm-fosco[at]dircon.co.uk)
Tue, 29 Jun 1999 21:44:25 +0000
>Romeyn Prescott wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Is there a PC utility that does the equivalent of Apple's Disk Copy
>> for PCs? I'm looking specifically to make an exact copy of a Hard
>> Drive that is stored in a single file. Being able to mount it as a
>> virtual disk would be a nice feature, but not required.
>>
>> I suppose WinZip could be used, but will it catch files that Windows
You could try Retrospect (Server) for Windows - I use the Mac version for
this quite often and can "clone" any type of disk and store them as files
too. Alternatively, if you have only got a Macintosh Retrospect Server but
you have a Windows Retrospect Client, you could do it that way too, over
the network. I know there are many other solutions around, but I like the
Retrospect interface - Retrospect can even copy "key disk" floppies in case
your original gets damaged..... ( and this exercise, incidentally, showed
me that the normally "uncopiable" data does not reside in the disk's name -
if you Back Up a floppy to a Retrospect file, then Restore using the
"replace entire disk" option, the target floppy doesn't get its name
changed, but it DOES hold whatever normally invisible "signature" data is
written to disk that utilities such as Disk copy fail to duplicate...
HTH - or is interesting at least...
Peter Mannheim
pm-fosco@dircon.co.uk
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