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floppy disk bad sectors

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From: Don Locke
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 20:00
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Does anyone know of an API to read a floppy to see if there is any bad 
sectors on the disk? I have spent several hours looking on the MS 
support web site looking for something like this.
Don
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