From:	Paul Campisi <pcampisi AT ececs DOT uc DOT edu>
Date:	Thu, 8 May 1997 11:40:07 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id:	<199705081540.LAA01261@banana.ece.uc.edu>
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Exclusive access to drive

Hello,
	Once again I am running into problems with system or spawn.

When I try to do the following:

system("chkdsk");
it gives me something like - CORRUPTED FAT TABLE

system("chkdsk /f");
it gives me "unable to get exclusive access to drive x" (where x is
the drive I am using chkdsk on)

The fat table isn't corrupted. If I go to a DOS shell and do a CHKDSK, it
works fine, but not from a SYSTEM, EXEC, and SPAWN.

Is it possible to get EXCLUSIVE ACCESS to a drive? or is there any other
way to run the chkdsk command?

Thanks,
	Paul

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