Incomputing,diskcopy is acommand used on a number ofoperating systems for copying the complete contents of adiskette to another diskette.^[1][2]

The command is available inMS-DOS,IBMPC DOS,DRFlexOS,^[3] IBM/Toshiba4690 OS,^[4]MetaComCoTRIPOS,^[5]Processor TechnologyPTDOS,^[6]AmigaDOS,TSLPC-MOS,^[7]PTS-DOS,^[8]SISNE plus,^[9]FreeDOS,^[10] IBMOS/2,^[11] andMicrosoftWindows.^[12]

The MS-DOS version was originally written in August 1982.^[13][14]It is available in MS-DOS versions 2 and later.^[15]Digital ResearchDR DOS 6.0^[16] andDatalightROM-DOS^[17] also include an implementation of thediskcopy command. TheFreeDOS version was developed by Imre Leber and is licensed under theGNU GPL 2.^[18]

The command is not included inWindows 10.^{[19][failed verification]}

The command is not included in Windows 11. xcopy is a like command

• Copy the complete contents of the diskette in Drive A drive to the diskette in B drive.

>diskcopy a: b:

• If there is only have one diskette drive, diskcopy can be done by typing the source drive only. The disk copy program will prompt to insert the second (target) diskette once it finishes reading the complete contents of the first (source) diskette track by track into memory.

>diskcopy a:

• If only the first side of the diskette needs to be copied, even if the target diskette is double sided, the /1 switch can be used.

>diskcopy a: /1

• To make sure the contents are written reliably, the /V switch can be used, but it will cost more time to copy.

>diskcopy a: /V

• Force diskcopy to use only the conventional memory for temporary storage:

>diskcopy a: /M

Diskcopy does not work withhard disk drives,CDs,network drives,Zip drives, orUSB drives, etc. It also does not allow diskcopy from 3.5 inch drive to 5.25 inch drives, and vice versa. The source and target drive must be the same size.^[20]

• Cooper, Jim (2001).Special Edition Using MS-DOS 6.22, Third Edition.Que Publishing.ISBN 978-0789725738.
• Kathy Ivens; Brian Proffit (1993).OS/2 Inside & Out.Osborne McGraw-Hill.ISBN 978-0078818714.
• Frisch, Æleen (2001).Windows 2000 Commands Pocket Reference.O'Reilly.ISBN 978-0-596-00148-3.

Wikibooks has a book on the topic of:Guide to Windows Commands

• diskcopy | Microsoft Docs
• Open source DISKCOPY implementation that comes with MS-DOS v2.0
• DOS the Easy Way Guide to MS-DOS: DISKCOPY
• Computer Hope: Microsoft DOS diskcopy command

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