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Re: write a long word on the hard disk

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From: Marcello Scala
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 21:18
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i say with a low level access to hd. (i want write on a single track).

How can i do it?


"Helmut Giese" <hgiese@ratiosoft.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
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> On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 21:15:56 +0200, "Marcello Scala"
> <marcello.scala@email.it> wrote:
>
> >Hi All.
> >
> >How can i write a long word value or other data, directly on the Hd?
> >(without create a file)
> You cannot - at least not in any way which makes sense. Windows
> accesses everything from HDs as files, so you have to adapt to it.
> BTW, how do you plan to retrieve your data if not as a file?
> I am afraid you will have to
> - open a file
> - write your data
> - possibly do mre stuff with the file and
> - close the file.
> If you tell us what kind of problem you are trying to solve, you might
> get different answers.
> HTH
> Helmut Giese
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