FileCopy To A:\

[chinhow]

Hi, My backup process is Filecopy(sourceFile, Adrive), but if the file's capacity is over 1.44mb the system won't be able to operate this function. Is there any other solution? e.g How do i copy a 5 mb file into separate diskettes?

[StormJason]

you can try to use the Filestream instead of filecopy to load the file and chop it to few byte array and store into different diskete

[chinhow]

Could you please show me the code? Because i don't really know how's the filestream is use.

[chinhow]

Step1: I use File stream and StreamWriter objects.
Step2: I create a buffer of 1.3MB or as is available and fill this
buffer with data and then flush it to floppy. I then Close above
objects and file names given on Floppy start with *.001 so that
you can go upto 999 floppies.
Step3 : I recreate above objects and seek to the last position written+1
to start writing on next floppy.
Step4: For the Last floppy, I create an additional file storing just
No. of Floppies=7(say) and thats all.

I have another program which is just a mirror copy of above program in which I use StreamReader to read the data.

It has worked successfully upto 27 floppies(that is what I have tried)
Hope this gives you some help.

A word of caution: Now a days floppies are not that reliable. So why not use CD-Writer and completely get out of this program!

->the above solution is provided by the programmersheavan.com, but i really don't know how to use the filestream method, can anyone tell me how to do above solution by provide with a sample coding, i will appreciate your kindness. Thank you.

[Pirate]

This totutrial for that job ......have fun !