how can I copy my master disks kmb1x ??

[GT390]

I have the three master floppies for my machine, and would like to copy them to have as backup disks, I have managed to get a few 720k disks and formatted them in dos, but the hurco wont recognise them. How do i format a disk on the hurco, and once I do that, is there any way to get the hurco to write the master to disk ? It must be possible somehow as the masters I have are written on coppied disks. i take it the hurco does not use the FAT file system ?

[Al_The_Man]

You need to get hold of a program called CopyQM.
There should be still some sites where you can download it.
It is an old copy program that will copy floppy's regardless of what format and record info stored in the boot record area.
Al.

[bloke]

Get an old PC on Windows 95 or 98, boot it up and then go through the shutdown to re-start in MS-DOS mode. At the command prompt, type Diskcopy A: A: then follow the instructions to copy from source disk to destination.

[GT390]

Thanks for the input guys, I have now got the job done !
I am running windows vista, I used the command prompt in vista to format the 720K disks "FORMAT A: /T:80 /N:9"

Then I put the master disk in vista floppy drive and used the right click, and selected "copy disk" to copy the master.
It copied the disk, then prompted to insert a blank one, It copied over to the one I formatted.
I am going to try it again without formatting the disk first, to see if it works with the "disk copy" function only, as before I copied over the master, the disk showed up as FAT file system, but now it has the master on it windows cannot read it at all.

have tested it out on the machine, to my suprise it WORKED !!!!

[fasto]

This can also be done in several ways using Linux -

You can use a Windows/DOS program called "rawrite.exe" which makes sector copies of floppies. It can copy the floppy to your Windows hard disk so you have a backup on your hard disk. It can then make as many copies onto floppy as you need.

Running Linux you can use "dd" to make binary copies of floppies (and hard disks, too).

Both of these methods don't care about what format the data is in. This lets you copy non-DOS disks easily.

[GT390]

Okay, vista formats and copies the disks in one go, really really simple, put in the hurco disk, right click and select "disk copy" follow the instructions, and it will write the hurco details exactly onto the new disk, even if the disk you write to has windows programs on it, it wipes those and formats the disk to hurco spec all in one go - amazing, I have made several copies and tested them in the machine.

One BIG problem for me though, my disk with my standard master is damaged,
32-50B3, can anyone help, I will buy or trade,

I have spare working copies of :

32-80B3 NC and G-Code
32-57B3 Calc Assist

If anyone can copy 32-50B3 for me I would really appreciate it

[bloke]

I've found a copy of it in my old laptop case. PM me an address and I'll see about sending it to ya.