Copy kickstart disk for A1000 with workbench 1.2

[marauderII]

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.

[robo-ant]

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!

[Framiga]

you will need a tool like X-Copy.

[InTheSand]

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

[CLS2086]

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

[Markus_Bieler]

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

[marauderII]

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.

[Donar]

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