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Old August 22nd, 2002, 06:29 AM
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Writing directly to disk (win32)
I want to write directly to a particular sector on a floppy disk, but I don't have a clue how to do it (and even less of clue how to do it so that NT-based systems let it run).

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The functions you're looking for (in DOS/Win 3.1/Win 3.11) were called absread() and abswrite(). For Win 95/98 and NT/2K, these are handled differently. See http://www.codeguru.com/system/ReadSector.html for more.
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Thanks. That's exactly what I was looking for
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