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Article #10982Re: Problems writing boot record to removable media under WinME
From: Bob Gonder
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 19:52
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 19:52
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Remy Lebeau (TeamB) wrote: >> Is this kosher? Thought you were supposed to use DeviceIoControl. > >That only applies to Win9x/Me. WinNT/2K/XP allows directories/devices to be >opened directly. Sounds like a very bad idea on MSs part. I suppose they think prepending \\.\ to the drive name will keep programmers from accidentally wiping out their drives.
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