If you can boot the disks and they work, yet you cannot read them with a normal disk program (shrinkit in your example), then the issue is probably due to copy protection on the disk itself. Most software publishers used some sort of format protection to make Apple II disks non-readable by standard means. Utilities like Copy II plus might allow you to make a workable backup, but the backup will most likely still be format protected and still unreadable by normal means.
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