Re: int 13 with>8G drive

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From: Bob Gonder
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:54

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Boba wrote:

>i don't see any .dos ngroups

That's actually a BIOS function/question,

>for a harddrive of >8G capacity, how do i call int 13
>func 05 (format track)? thanks in advance.      boba.

A) Find and read the technical documentation for your BIOS to find out
if it supports formatting large drives.

B) Use SHFormatDrive()

C) Use the Win32 function  DeviceIoControl()

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