Hi,

I want to make a floppy disk format utility for windows XP.
This format utility will only be formatting A:\ or B:\ floppy disk drives.
I will want to put a unknown disk format on the disk and it uses 256
byte/sectors. I see the Microsoft example in the DDK for the floppy
disk driver, but if it's possible to do this without making a driver in
Windows XP I'd sure like to know. If anyone can help? I'm using
Visual Studio 6 and MFC.

johncc




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Re: Floppy Disk IOCTL functions? by Maxim

Maxim
Thu Dec 11 14:20:17 CST 2003

I don't think such formats will be supported by Windows at all unless you
will write your own floppy driver.

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Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation
maxim@storagecraft.com
http://www.storagecraft.com


"John Collyer" <johncollyer@zoominternet.net> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I want to make a floppy disk format utility for windows XP.
> This format utility will only be formatting A:\ or B:\ floppy disk drives.
> I will want to put a unknown disk format on the disk and it uses 256
> byte/sectors. I see the Microsoft example in the DDK for the floppy
> disk driver, but if it's possible to do this without making a driver in
> Windows XP I'd sure like to know. If anyone can help? I'm using
> Visual Studio 6 and MFC.
>
> johncc
>
>
>
>
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