Re: [WinMac] Disk Copy for PC?
Curtis Wilcox(cwcx[at]mail.rochester.edu)
Tue, 06 Jul 1999 12:45:33 -0400
WinMac Digest #359 - Tuesday, July 6, 1999
Re: [WinMac] Disk Copy for PC?
by "Curtis Wilcox" <cwcx@mail.rochester.edu>
Subject: Re: [WinMac] Disk Copy for PC?
From: Curtis Wilcox <cwcx@mail.rochester.edu>
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 12:45:33 -0400
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At 09:44 PM 6/29/99 +0000, Peter Mannheim wrote:
> >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
According to the Dantz site there is no Retrospect (the server) for Windows
yet, only the client software.
>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...
That's VERY interesting, I'll have to try that.
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