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According to SDK and other sources, under Win NT, 2K, XP and later, only regular way to acccess floppy from programs is via CreateFile for physical floppy, and having linear access.
But it has issues with non strictly PC format floppies, even if them are well readable with PC's FDC chip.
Does someone knows is possible to access some undocumented, 'hidden' calls, where we can address floppy with geometry - CHS. Somewhere such functions inside floppy driver(s) must exist.
Mentioned issues: for instance it is not possible to read 10th sector on track by DD floppies (used by many old computers).
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I have done this in the past (NT 3.51)
I used the source from the floppy driver (in the DDK).
Inside the driver, there are quite a few supported physical formats. So I took a rarely used format and adjusted it to my needs (which was to read/write/format IBM System 36 Desktop-diskettes (26 sectors, double-sided, 512 or 256 bytes per sector, 80 cylinders)).
It worked like a charm, the biggest problem was to find out the sector gap parameter. For reading the diskette, i used trial and error to find out the lowest and highest values that worked, then I used the value in the middle of them.
Then i could experiment the gap used at formatting and writing, the same way as for the reading gap.
So you will need at least one "original" diskette to find out the gap at read. Make sure you can read all sectors on a cylinder , just sector 0 won't do!
Kakan
Alcohol. The cause of, and the solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson
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Sir
WINNT 4.0 is Giving an Alter as Event ID 7023 with description as
Source: Service Control Manager
Type: Error
Description: The Server service terminated with the following error:Not enough server storage is available to process this command.pls help me in resolving this event what i must do inorder to avoid this. thank u.
Fly Like An Eagle With MIGHTY POWER.
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A simple Yahoo search came up with all of these[^] reasons.
-- modified at 8:16 Friday 18th August, 2006
Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic
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Hi, in my office system, there si no calculator,help and support center,Paint..How can get this?Only by XP installation CD or any other way?
Anu
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Try to check Add/Remove program in control panel. For help and support center, I'm not sure too.
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u can get these from the microsoft website.
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I wonder if anybody could help me. I'm looking for a list of default fonts which windows like to install. In particular I am looking for a list for win 95/98 systems (Chinese Simplified version).
Thanks in advance
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Asking for help stealing a microsoft product on an MS centric website that has several MS employee's as regular visitors... did you like the taste of paint chips as a kid>
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Were you born a total idiot or just hit in the head with a baseball bat?
Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic
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You guys would have a heart attack if you came to China. You can buy Any version of windows for just 4 yuan, on any street! No need for keygens and most even have that new LegitControl pre installed. 4 yuan is about 2 cents to you Americans.
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Well, how many yuan are in the $250,000 fine per pirated copy of Windows you have? I don't know about you, but I don't have that kind of money spilling out of my pockets, and yes, MS is actively hunting down violators...
Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic
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Jay03 wrote: If you post up the keygen, would they hunt you down or the code project administrator?
They will hunt you down, Chris, every employee of CodeProject, then go through the server logs and find out the IP of everyone who downloaded the stupid thing and hunt them down.
Jay03 wrote: I am not aware of the fact that MS employee's visit this website
Assume they're everywhere!
Jay03 wrote: Sorry even though you had some harsh words to say
You just asked a bunch of developers, who write software for a living and, as such, detest piracy, where to get something to pirate software! What do you think the reaction is going to be?
Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic
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Jay03 wrote: I am not aware of the fact that MS employee's visit this website
http://www.codeproject.com/script/profile/whos_who.asp?vt=arts&id=232
I know I've seen at least one other occasional poster from microsoft here.
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Clickity[^]
Wasn't really needed but I wanted to see who it was, and to lazy to paste into the address bar
-- modified at 2:24 Monday 28th August, 2006
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
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Man, you should use a legal license instead. Respect the developer labor that build this software.
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Never use a pirate software, cause you are retributing the hard work of the employees of a company, but always a company is a company and ther is an only few accionist who really enjoy the hard work of us, long life for us who make software, and that few I think for them is what we have piracy
Alejandro Daza
Ingeniero de Sistemas
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
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Sir
We are working with WINNT 4.0 Server O.S immediately after booting the following MessageBox Appears
"Atleast One Service or driver failed during system startup use event viewer to examine the event log for details". we also opened event log where we could findout
the event ID 7026 followed by another event 1543 failed to startup. how can this be resolved pls help me.
Fly Like An Eagle With MIGHTY POWER.
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Not enough information. You need to look at the source of the event and double click it to get the details of those events.
Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic
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Hi, I put Windows XP Service pack 2 on my laptop the other day, and now its really slow. The CPU is at 50% constantly now. Has this happened anyone before?
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I noticed the same. In my first attempt I downloaded the updates for Microsoft and installed them, I noticed there was a hell of a drag. I then decided to buy a new version with SP2 pre-installed, which is a lot faster. I think what slows the system down is all the darned update packs!
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