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Title: Copy kickstart disk for A1000 with workbench 1.2
Post by: marauderII on May 18, 2007, 04:03:53 AM

How do i copy a kickstart disk with workbench 1.2?
I tryed diskcopy df0: to df1: and it almost finished copying
then it gave me sector errors. This is my only kick disk left that sill works and i have 3 A1000's. I had x-copy, mirror image, MarauderII diskcopier ect.. back in the day but all the
disk have died. Tomorrow I'm going to try to use Clanto's amiga explorer to send a kick.adf to my amiga 1000 .If i can find/remember the basic program that reads data from the serial port.

Title: Re: Copy kickstart disk for A1000 with workbench 1.2
Post by: robo-ant on May 18, 2007, 04:42:07 AM

Hi marauderII,

Have you attempted to use your copies?  If the disk really "almost finished copying", then it should work.  Kickstart only occupies the first ~256K of the disk!

Title: Re: Copy kickstart disk for A1000 with workbench 1.2
Post by: Framiga on May 18, 2007, 08:45:08 AM

you will need a tool like X-Copy.

Title: Re: Copy kickstart disk for A1000 with workbench 1.2
Post by: InTheSand on May 18, 2007, 10:01:39 AM

Hi,

You should be able to copy your Kickstart disk fine with the inbuilt "diskcopy" command - it's not protected in any way and C= encouraged backing up of all the system disks to guard against failure.

My guess is that there are either errors on the disk you're copying or perhaps problems with the disk drive?

 - Ali

Title: Re: Copy kickstart disk for A1000 with workbench 1.2
Post by: CLS2086 on May 18, 2007, 04:41:49 PM

Xcopy or Transwarp to make an AdF then to rebuild a floppy disk.

Title: Re: Copy kickstart disk for A1000 with workbench 1.2
Post by: Markus_Bieler on May 18, 2007, 05:47:45 PM

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I tryed diskcopy df0: to df1: and it almost finished copyingthen it gave me sector errors

That doesn't matter. A1000 Kickstartdisks aren't normally formatted disks. Copying the first half of a disk without errors and you have a new kickstartdisk.

If you don't trust, then there is on aminet grabkick and writekick which does thesame for you.

First boot with your kick and wb then use grabkick, after use writekick df0: AND writeprotect your Original kickdisk.

If you don't trust use dms to read the kickdisk and to write back.

Markus

Title: Re: Copy kickstart disk for A1000 with workbench 1.2
Post by: marauderII on May 19, 2007, 05:48:43 AM

Thanks I got it working. If put kickstart disk in df1: then diskcopy df1: to df0: it works. But it wont copy if kick is in df0: and i diskcopy df0: to df1:???

And I also got Clantos Amiga explore going. And a 50 pack of 3.5" disk.

Title: Re: Copy kickstart disk for A1000 with workbench 1.2
Post by: Donar on May 19, 2007, 06:27:13 AM

Seems that your df1: is in better shape than df0: ...