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Using DISKCOPY with one diskette drive

1. Make sure the diskette you want to copy is write-protected.

(See Chapter 3 for instructions.)

2. If you don’t have a hard disk, insert your Startup diskette

into drive A.

3. If you have a hard disk, type

C

: and press

Enter

to log onto

drive C. If you do not have a hard disk, type

A

: and press

Enter

to log onto drive A.

4. At the MS-DOS command prompt, type the following and

press

Enter:

DISKCOPY A: A:

MS-DOS displays these messages:

Insert SOURCE diskette in drive A:

Press any key to continue . . .

5. If necessary, remove the Startup diskette from drive A.

Insert the diskette you want to copy from (the source

diskette) into the drive. Then press any key. DISKCOPY
starts to copy the contents of the diskette to the computer’s

memory. When the computer’s memory is full, the screen

displays these messages:

Insert TARGET diskette in drive A:

Press any key to continue . . .

6. Remove the source diskette from drive A and insert the

diskette you want to copy to (the target diskette). Then

press any key. If the target diskette is not formatted,

DISKCOPY formats it before copying data to it.

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