Formatting Floppy Disks

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From: Mark Joseph Bylander
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1991 16:45

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I am trying to write a small program that will format floppies in
the background in MS-WIN3.0.  I have tried just calling the bios
directly, but windows really doesn't like this and terminates the
application.  My question is: How can I format a disk under windows?
Does windows have any undocumented functions which will do this
already?

Many thanks in advance.

Mark Bylander

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Subject: Formatting Floppy Disks
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