[fpc-pascal] low level disk access under Windows

[Daniel Franzini]

well

i did not wrote any code like this yet...but i do know that the so-called
rawwrite tool used for writing images of boot floppies in windowz env is
written in delphi (7 at the moment)...

since the sources are open you can browse around and see how things get done

http://www.chrysocome.net/rawwrite

On 10/6/06, Pianoman <pianoman at centrum.sk> 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?
> Thanx for help
> Pianoman
>



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Daniel

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