Any one knows any old hacking techniques?

[baka tori]

Hi everyone out there.

I have some questions which hopefully can generate some answers from this forum.

I have a program (in 2 floppies), upon installation, i need to keep the 1st disk in the floppy drive to keep the program running. The program will authenticate the "Key disk" in the floppy drive before running the program.

I have tried using normal diskcopy to make a duplicate, but the program recognised that the copied disk is not the "Key disk".

I would like to seek assistance from all pals out there. Does anyone know any source where I can obtained a disk copy utilities to crack the "key disk" protection? I remembered many years ago, this "key protection" technique was very common and utilties to crack it was common. Buy I have problems obtaining them now. Appreciate if anyone can help me on this matter.

Baka Tori

[Nemesis]

Forget it!
Cannot be done anymore.

[baka tori]

Nemesis (28-11-2000 13:20):
Forget it!
Cannot be done anymore.

Can't be done? I dun quite think so, cos' the copy protection principle seems to apply to the CD-ROMs also, I just need to find the correct utilities for floppies. Anyone can help?

[Nemesis]

Well baka tori, suggest you change your nick to 'thick as a brick'!
There is NO way you can copy a protected floppy anymore.
Seeing as you are 'thick as a brick' I will explain.
The copy protection used on floppies consist of unformatted tracks and unformatted sectors on the floppy.
Once upon a time it was possible to copy these using a special PIB that had COMPLETE control over a floppy drive plugged into it.
Using special software, that doesn't run under any of the newer O/S's, O/S's that also wouldn't have any way of supporting these PIB's, it was possible to format the floppy in the correct way and then copy the data to it.
However, 'thick as a brick' the one little item you needed to make this work has not been available for at least a decade.
That item? UNFORMATTED FLOPPIES!
There is NO utility, no matter what you might like to believe, that can overcome this type of protection.