On Thursday 06 April 2006 07:01, Mike McCarty wrote:

> C:\> pkzip -a -ex -p -r some_dir some_dir\*.*
> C:\> pkunzip -t some_dir
> C:\> deltree/y some_dir

I seem to recall a long time ago that pkzip and pkunzip have an entirely 
different set of flags, all starting with / in DOS.  Consult pk(un)zip /? 
before attempting just in case.

> By far, the best way to go, if you simply refuse to do a backup,
> is simply to buy/borrow/beg/steal another disc and do a copy using
> Linux. After all data have been verified correct, reformat the original
> disc and copy back. Then return the borrowed disc.

You might want to do a dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/borrowed-disk if you don't 
want the owner knowing what was on the borrowed disk and intend to return it.

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