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Re: Obtaining disk geometry for \\.\A: not working (repost)

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From: Remy Lebeau (TeamB)
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 16:56
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"Andrue Cope" <not.a.valid@email.address.sorry> wrote in message
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>       if( DeviceIoControl( MyFileHandle,

Which OS are you running under?  How did you open MyFileHandle to begin
with?  Under WinNT/2K/XP, you can open a device directly, but under
Win9x/Me, you cannot, you must access the device indirectly via the
VMM32.VXD driver instead.


Gambit


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