Re: floppy disk bad sectors

Article View: borland.public.cppbuilder.nativeapi

Article #8294

Back to borland.public.cppbuilder.nativeapi Previous Next

#8294

From: Don Locke
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 13:46

13 lines
1768 bytes

I have written a backup program for myself using ZipBuilder.  I put a 
floppy into the drive & checked that there were no files on it.  The 
newest version of ZipBuilder looks at the size of the disk & the 
available space & determined that there was already files of the disk. 
Further checking showed that the disk has some bad sectors.  I would 
like to be able to check the floppy for bad sectors before using the disk.
Don

Don Locke wrote:
> 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

Technical Details

Message-ID: <41921bba$1@newsgroups.borland.com>

Path:

arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!transit.nntp.hccnet.nl!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news-hub.cableinet.net!blueyonder!news-peer-test!btnet!newsfeed.bt.es!caladan.landsraad.net!newsgroups.borland.com!not-for-mail

References: <419121f3$1@newsgroups.borland.com>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

X-Google-Thread: 10cc67,2aacc4eb93e0b7a0
X-Google-Attributes: gid10cc67,public
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 06:46:37 -0700
From: Don Locke <dgnospamlocke@comcast.net>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax;nscd1)
X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
MIME-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: borland.public.cppbuilder.nativeapi
Subject: Re: floppy disk bad sectors
References: <419121f3$1@newsgroups.borland.com>
In-Reply-To: <419121f3$1@newsgroups.borland.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.8.80.227
Message-ID: <41921bba$1@newsgroups.borland.com>
X-Trace: newsgroups.borland.com 1100094394 24.8.80.227 (10 Nov 2004 05:46:34 -0700)
Lines: 13
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!transit.nntp.hccnet.nl!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news-hub.cableinet.net!blueyonder!news-peer-test!btnet!newsfeed.bt.es!caladan.landsraad.net!newsgroups.borland.com!not-for-mail

Reply to Parent Message