Personal Computer User Manual

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

Insert the diskette you want to copy from (the source

diskette) into drive A and the diskette you want to copy to

(the target diskette) into drive B. Then press any key to

begin copying. If the target diskette is not formatted,

DISKCOPY formats it before copying data to it.

When the copy is complete, you see this message:

Copy another diskette (Y/N)?

Press Y to copy another diskette or N to return to the

MS-DOS command prompt.

Using the BACKUP Command

Use the BACKUP command to back up the data on your hard

disk. It provides a convenient and efficient way to copy the files

on the hard disk to diskettes. BACKUP allows you to do the

following:

Split large files across two or more diskettes

Copy only those files that have been modified since the

most recent backup (with the /M switch)

Copy only those files that have been created (or modified)

after a specified date (with the /D switch)

Copy files in the current directory together with files in all

subdirectories of the current directory (with the /S switch)

Automatically format diskettes before copying files.

Unlike COPY, XCOPY, and DISKCOPY, which make readable

copies of files, BACKUP creates files that you cannot access

directly. To return files copied with the BACKUP command to

the hard disk, you need to use the RESTORE command.

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