[Lilux-help] Copy floppy including the bad sectors

[Alain Knaff]

begin  Monday 12 January 2004 21:12, Yves Glodt quote:
> Hello,
>
> I wonder how I can make an 1:1 copy of a floppy, including the bad
> sectors on it... Plain dd fails with i/o errors.
> I tried ddrescue to make an image, and wrote the resulting image to
> another floppy, but it does not work :-(
>
> Background:
> I'ts about a floppy that came with a windoze software which stores a
> license. A backup of this key is what is needed...
>
> Is there another way doing this copy?
>
> Regards,
> Yves

Did you try fdutils: ;-)

http://fdutils.linux.lu/

It has a nice fdrwacmd utility which allows to retrieve sectors and
ignore any CRC errors...

Regards,

Alain