[ILUG] Making An Image Of A Floppy Disk Again

[kosullivan_xlib Last Name]

I am trying to copy a JAWS (Job Access With Speach) for Windows Key Disk (1.44 mb)

I have been trying to us the dd command to create an image of a floppy disk the problem is that the disk that I'm trying to make an image of has bad sectors on it (or what appear to be bad sectors).  I've been using 

dd if=/dev/fd0 of=image.jaws conv=noerror

This gets all the data but the disk is copy protected and when writing the image.jaws file to a new disk the bad sectors cause the image not to be correct, which means that the copy of the key disk doesn't work. 
The original disk doesn't seem to have bad sectors when it is being accessed by the jaws software.  I've even tried using a raw read raw write program for windows to copy the disk, that doesn't work either.

The output from the dd command for the jaws key disk is as follows.

dd if=/dev/fd0 of=image.jaws conv=noerror
2870+0 reads in
2870+0 reads out
I/O Error
2872+0 reads in
2872+0 reads out
I/O Error

This message is repeated a few times the "reads in" never get past 2872.

A normal floppy generates the following output
2880+0 reads in
2880+0 reads out

I have tried this on 2 machines so it can't be my floppy drive.

Can anyone tell me are these bad sectors or just a form of copy protection? 
Can dd help me at all?



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