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D E E P C O P Y I I
from Mike Gasbers, Cologne, Germany
This is another public domain tool for Risc OS.
It clones ADFS-discs (and only those) of each
format - the result is a real backup, not only a
copy of your files. That means, the tracks will be
copied byte by byte. In some cases this will also
duplicate discs with copy-protection. I'm sorry to
some software-writers, but I can't avoid this now.
There are following options available (you have to
click the menu-button to pop up the menu-window):
Checkdisc : verify the selected tracks,
TrackCopy : copy the selected tracks.
SectorCopy : do the same as above - just deeper.
Get image : create an image of your disc as file
specified in <DeepCopy$Dir>.imagefile.
Please note, that only selected tracks
are being copied.
Put image : put back the image created with the
last option. Be careful, because on
the disc the image will start at the
selected first track, not on the first
one used when getting the image (some
guys told me that makes sense, please
don't ask me why).
Now, let's have a look at the other parameters and
the use of some icons ...
Clicking on the drive symbols will enable or disable
them (if there is only one source drive this will
always be active). While you can select any number
of, of course configured, destination drives, you
can only select one source drive at a time.
Clicking on the arrows under "First track" and
"Last track" with the left button will increase or
decrease those tracks by one, using the right
button by ten.
The START-button will start the specified action.
After clicking that one the button will change to
an STOP-button with whom you can abort the current
action. This button is also used when changing of
discs is needed - it will prompt you to CONTINUE
when ready.
There is a status line on the bottom which always
tells you what is done or what has to be done.
Multiple copy means you can copy the selected tracks
several times without reading the source each time
before you want to copy the same tracks again.
Please note, that this can only be done with as many
tracks as will fit into free memory.
If "Verify tracks" is selected, after each write the
written track will be verified.
To copy discs with read-errors or ignore any other
errors while reading or writing you can select this
option.
Last not least you can pop up a small window which
shows you the meaning of all symbols and leds which
could appear while using DeepCopy II. To do this
just click on the "!" beside the logo.
To save the current settings as your defaults you
can use the Save-option in the icon-bar-menu.
I hope this tool may help you sometimes or just
make your life a little bit easier,
Mike.