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Direct floppy disk access

i am writing an os with it's own file system, and i need some way to
format my disks from windows. for this i need to write directly to
the disk. i have tried may methods, but failed.

please help!!
Nov 13 '05 #1
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geek589 wrote:
i am writing an os with its own file system, and i need some way to
format my disks from windows. for this i need to write directly to
the disk. i have tried many methods, but failed.

please help!!


Sorry, but there's no way to do this in the *standard* C language --
hence, you're off topic here.

Try a Windows-oriented newsgroup.

HTH,
--ag

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Artie Gold -- Austin, Texas
Oh, for the good old days of regular old SPAM.

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