From: "Alec Ford" <alecford AT clear DOT net DOT nz>
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Subject: Re: Boot sectors and partition tables
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Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 09:47:59 +1300
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Download the help files that come with the Ranish partition manager:

http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/

and the Microsoft FAT specification released last year:

http://209.67.75.168/hardware/fatgendown.htm

They will tell you all you need to know (except maybe details of MBR
records) and more.

Then all you will have to do is battle with direct disk reads under various
versions of DOS/WIndows

Alec Ford

Damian Yerrick wrote in message
<7c6p8sccsimi62b7el2pfkid1qd4dfvnrf AT 4ax DOT com>...
>On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 07:41:35 GMT, "Bryan Kemp" <bryankemp AT mytalk DOT com>
>wrote:
>
>>I was curious if anyone has any knowledge in the areas of boot sectors and
>>partition tables. I need to write a utility to read these areas and check
>>them to make certain the information is put down correctly.
>
>The friendly folks in comp.os.msdos.programmer may be able to help
>you. (xpost added)
>
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