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.

5.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:

Cl Split large files across two or more diskettes

Cl Copy only those files that have been modified since the most recent backup (with the /M switch)

Cl Copy only those files that have been created (or modified) after a specified date (with the /D switch)

Cl Copy files in the current directory together with files in all subdirectories of the current directory (with the /S switch)

Cl 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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