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'''HDCopy''' is a [[disk image]] application for [[floppy disk]]s that runs in [[MS-DOS]]. It can copy a floppy on the fly, or by using archives with [[IMG (file format)|IMG]] file extension that store the content of the disk with a proprietary file format ({{clarify span|whose first three bytes noted in hexadecimal will be FF 18, and its size will be anything|date=May 2024}}).
For the proprietary file format compression can be used or deactivated. The compression algorithm is called "Byte-Run-2-Algorithm" by the author.<ref>hd-copy.dok - Manual shipped with HD-Copy</ref>

It was written by Oliver Fromme and is distributed as [[cardware]].

Do not confuse the ''HD'' in its name with ''hard disk''. HD represents ''high density'' (floppy disks with capacity greater than 1.2 MB).

In the early 90s, when floppy diskettes for PCs were widely used, HDCopy was extremely popular in many places. Its usage started to decline as floppy disks became less widely used.

The last released version of HDCopy is 2.0a. There is also a version 3.0a developed later by a Chinese programmer, which is not to be confused with Fromme's version.

== Features ==
The program can handle a large variety of non-standard formats and in many cases automatically recover bad sectors.

To use these images, you may need to restore the image using HDCopy and then create a raw image of it using [[RawWrite]], [[dd (Unix)|dd]], WinImage, etc. You may also need to use a virtual floppy drive to emulate a floppy drive.

== See also ==
*[[Track0]]
*[[VGA-Copy]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160304075734/http://www.asiawide.or.jp/HD_COPY.htm Free Download of HD-Copy (Archived)]
*{{sourceforge|vfd|Virtual Floppy Drive emulator for Windows}}

[[Category:DOS software]]


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