[fpc-pascal] Low level disc access under windows with FPC

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sun, 8 Oct 2006, Pianoman wrote:

>        Hello, I'd like to ask if someone has experiences with low level
> disk operations in windows with FPC.
> The program should be able to copy entire diskete to one single image file
> and for example extract a single file from that image or view its contents.
> 
> For example how can I read one sector from disk in to buffer?

I may be wrong, but I don't think Windows allows this, unless you write
a Windows Driver or maybe an old DOS program.

Michael.