Personal Computer User Manual

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. R emove 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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