BR> BM> The first one wouldn't, since diskcopy copies ALL sectors of the
BR> BM> source disk regardless of whether or not they're marked as used.
BR> Last time I tried using DiskCopy on a copy-protected diskette (oh, back
BR> around Dos 3.1 or so) it choked faster than a bimbo at a leper's
BR> convention.
BR> As long as software is using Dos/Int 21h routines, it won't handle
BR> renumbered or crazy sector numbers put in with Bios/Int 13h routines,
BR> which was what the majority of Copy-protection schemes used.
I don't think my DiskCopy is using int 21h calls... I thinks it's using the
int 13h calls... from the diskette with bad sectors I tried to copy, it tried
but failed to read many of the sectors which had been marked as bad.
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