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Date:	Wed, 03 May 2000 09:54:40 +0100
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From:	Michelle Konzack <starone AT cybercable DOT fr>
Subject:	Re: Partition problem...
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At 22:40 02.05.2000 GMT, you wrote
--------> This was the original Message:
>Michelle Konzack <starone AT cybercable DOT fr> wrote:
>>>	if exist f:\michelle.2nd goto OK_2nd_drive_is_there
>
>> It give me a system error
>
>> A(bbrechen) W(iederholen) U(ebergehen)
>
>That only should happen if there is no disk 'f:' at all. From your
>previous message, I gathered the impression that only 'f:' and 'i:'
>were missing if the second disk is not present, implying that what
>would otherwise have been drive 'g:' should now turn up as 'f:',
>automatically. For the case that 'f:' is not present at all, you
>may be able to use this check:
>
>	if not exist f:\nul  goto Ooops_2nd_harddrive_not_there
>
>I've seen reports that this old trick may no longer work with newer
>DOS versions and/or Windows 32bit file access drivers, though.
>

Last year I was on a news group, and one programmer had the 
source for detecting  a harddisk (returns TRUE or FALSE) and 
then he was able to detect FAT12/16 partitions on it...

But for now I have no NEWS-Access (Windows crashes) and I do 
not know in which news group it was.

Michelle

P.S.:   It was written in ASM

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Linux rebootet man in drei Fällen: 
Neuer Kernel, neue (Board-)Hardware, Stromausfall....

Aber Windows rebootet man auch in drei Fällen: 
Schutzverletzung, Bluescreen, keinen Bock...

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