Originally posted by Contr_Conn I am not telling you that copying of Master Disk is good, but COPYQM with CQMENU works just fine. Use it to make backup of you legal copies. Floppy is floppy, it fails very likely. I can confirm that these do indeed work. I wrote a simple batch program (which runs COPYQM) that I use to spit me out a replacement master disk when my authorization goes south (which it does from time to time).

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I think Windows defrag tends to eat authorizations. If I remember correctly, I only needed CQMENU to generate the disk image. If it hasn't been stressed enough, this is only to be used to make LEGAL copies!:notrue: beerchug -Eric.

Two years ago I released to the community a tool that allows a user to easily copy a floppy disk to an image file, and then mount that image file as a 'virtual' floppy drive. This application allows you (once you have created an image file, that is) install an activation on a PC that DOES NOT have a floppy drive on it. You can find this program at my site: Alternatively, it is featured on SoftPedia: This application is 100% freeware, and contain no spyware, trojans, or malware. The full source code for the program is also available for those interested.

Keep programming, guys! I totally agree with you on that, monkeyhead. I create my tool because Dell stopped including Floppy disks in their laptops a few years ago, and we had an incredibly hard time getting Rockwell applications installed. At that time, well over half of the external floppy drives available for these laptops absolutely WOULD NOT READ a Master Disk.

After many calls to tech support, we discovered that the USB powered floppy drives would not read the Master Disks because the way that Rockwell 'hides' the activation key. Our other problem is that our field laptops were notorious for getting trashed. Although Rockwell allows you to reset an activation, they do not like to do this multiple times for that same one, even if it is over a few years. So we used this app to copy the Master Disk, and then that disk is locked away and never used. We use the image files for installation.

Like any other tool, it can be abused if you choose to do so. But almost all the people I've met over the years that are using these tools have a legitimate need to do so, and have no desire to break their software agreements with Rockwell. But almost all the people I've met over the years that are using these tools have a legitimate need to do so, and have no desire to break their software agreements with Rockwell. It used to seem I was asked nearly every day by someone for a disk so they can take a copy of RSLogix home. I used to politely explain that only one copy could be activated at a time and that we obvioulsy needed the two copies of RSLogix Standard and RSLogix Starter to be operational at work.

Eventually I started to bluntly point out it was MY responsibility to protect the software that the company had purchased and registered under my name and that the answer was no. I haven't been asked to help anyone steal a copy in a long time. Besides, when I go home, the last thing I want to do on my PC is the same stuff I do all day at work. I don't understand why these people Jones for this software like they do. From ChuckM: I don't understand why these people Jones for this software like they do. That’s a new one on me.

But I think I get your point. Maybe it’s because of my line of work, but in my personal experience, the VAST majority of people who are asking for free copies of the Allen-Bradley software have no intentions of “ripping off” the company - or using it for nefarious programming purposes. Their sole reason for wanting access to the software is just to LEARN about it. Frankly I can’t remember the last time someone asked me how to “obtain” the software for any other purpose. Usually (INVARIABLY!) it’s someone who recognizes that the more he knows about PLCs, the higher up the employment totem pole he can go. Who can blame him for wanting to move up a notch, make more money, and better support his family? So he decides he can scrape up enough cash to buy some used PLC hardware off of eBay.