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PianoDisc Diskette Backup
By Jim Moore

Hi, does anyone out there know of a utility that will allow a playable
CD backup to be made from a PianoDisc floppy?  Some of my PianoDisc
floppies are getting old and I don't want to loose the data (music)
on them, plus I like the playability (is that a word?) of CDs better.
I tried to contact Giebler Enterprises but haven't heard back.

Thank you!
Jim Moore

 [ Julie Porter contributed a diskette utility program named PDFILE.EXE
 [ that "allows PianoDisc and Yamaha diskette directories and disk
 [ images to be listed.  In addition, it allows for the recovery of
 [ individual songs from a bad or corrupted disk.  There is also an
 [ option to allow for the creation of uncompressed raw disk images."
 [ See "Miscellaneous" at http://mmd.foxtail.com/Tech/index.html
 [
 [ Jody wrote in 960926 MMDigest:
 [> It may be sufficient to make a "sector copy" of the diskette in
 [> question.  The destination diskette must be the same size (700k
 [> or 1.4 meg), and must be pre-formatted, and must be error free.
 [> Then use the DOS diskcopy command:  diskcopy a: a:
 [> It's advisable to have the "source" diskette write protected!
 [
 [ The Giebler PianoDisc diskette manager is described at
 [ http://www.giebler.com/giebler1.htm#pdm
 [
 [ -- Robbie


(Message sent Tue 17 Jan 2006, 05:02:49 GMT, from time zone GMT-0800.)

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