Xcopy a: b: would fool the system.
a: to a: should complain.
See also robocopy it is the best tool to copy.
Also one could use rawread and rawrite to make an image of the floppy to the hard drive and back.
Also winzip should allow you to copy it back and forth.
Plenty of other ways.
Cat command would work.
"Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, antivirus, anti-spyware, Live CD's, backups, are in my top 10