Disklavier

Thank you for posting this!  However, it did not work for me.  My Pianosoft 
disks are 720k.  I thought ALL PianoSoft disks were double density!  I used 
AnaDisk to make an exact copy of the PianoSoft diskette - one 720k disk 
copied to another 720k disk.  I used a laptop running Windows XP 
professional.  I was surprised that Anadisk worked in virtual DOS as the 
dkvcopy does NOT!  I suppose I could try using AnaDisk to copy a 720k 
PianoSoft disk to a 1.44 disk, then perhaps this would work.  Are your 
PIanoSoft disks 1.44?

Carol Beigel
crbrpt@...

>From: James Fry <linx@...>
>Reply-To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
>To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [disklavier] "Unprotecting" 1.44MB 2HD Pianosoft disks
>Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 02:25:01 +0000 (GMT)
>
>Hi all,
>
>Apologies if I'm repeating stuff people already know, but hopefully it
>will help some people:
>
>*************************************************************************
>Please note: doing this might well be against the Yamaha license, and I
>accept no responsibility for any damage / loss of data / earthquakes /
>flying pigs appearing that might occur from the following!
>*************************************************************************
>
>Anyone who has ever tried to read the files from "protected" Pianosoft
>disks will know they are unreadable in a PC as Yamaha put an invalid boot
>sector to make Yamaha think the disk is unformatted.
>
>There are some utilities around which will make a copy of a protected 720k
>floppy and write a valid boot sector so that Windows / others can read the
>data on the disk. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any software for
>doing the same with 1.44MB (2HD) disks (although if you have Linux it's
>easy).
>
>If you wish to unprotect one of these floppies (ideally make a backup copy
>of the disk first) you can use a utility for Windows called "rawrite"
>(which is usually used for making Linux boot floppy disks) to put the boot
>sector back on. I have attached the boot sector from a floppy disk to this
>email.
>
>Grab RAWRITE.EXE / RAWRITEXP.EXE from your favourite Linux site /
>distribution, such as a mirror of the Slackware ftp:
>
>ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-8.1/bootdisks/RAWRITEXP.EXE
>
>Then write the attached image file to the disk, and you should then be
>able to read the disks in Windows and make use of the conversions utils in
>dkvutils.zip as you would on a 720k disk. I've tried this on a couple of
>my 1.44mb protected floppies and it appears to work great. I guess
>theoretically it would work on a 720k disk too, but I don't have any to
>try it out on.
>
>Hope this is of use to someone :)
>
>James
>
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