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Floppy Copy

20 August 2025
Quickly Copy/Dump the contents of a floppy drive (or several) to a folder without waiting or asking questions. Note: This web page was drafted with help from an AI to serve as a temporary local archive of the python program in question. You can also find the python program at this GitHub URL TBD. I hope to eventually make a parser that can standardize this kind of local distribution.

About Floppy Copy

Floppy Copy is a simple Python program that automatically detects when a disk is inserted and creates a full copy of its contents to your hard drive. It was designed for users of Sony Mavica floppy drive cameras that want to quickly dump the contents of their floppies. It's easy to use, lightweight, and completely free!

Features

  • Automatic Detection: No need to manually start the copy; it waits for you to insert a disk.
  • Safe Archiving: Each disk copy is given a unique folder. The disk is never written to or formatted.
  • Retry Functionality: Handles read errors by retrying a few times.
  • Open Source: The full source code is available for you to inspect and modify!

System Requirements

Floppy Copy is a Python program. To run it, you'll need:
  • A computer with a working floppy drive. Likely one of those external USB floppy drives.
  • Python 3.x installed on your system.
By default this program is assumes the floppy drive is assigned to the `A:\` drive letter in a Windows system. You can easily modify the code to change this if needed.

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Download Floppy Copy (v1.1)

Note: The program is a Python script and requires Python 3 to be installed.

Source Code

Go on make it yourself.
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