From: brennan AT mack DOT rt66 DOT com (Brennan "Bas" Underwood)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Exclusive access to drive
Date: 31 May 1997 21:27:53 -0600
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In article <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 970525132425 DOT 4960B-100000 AT is>,
Eli Zaretskii  <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
>On Fri, 23 May 1997, Paul Campisi wrote:
>> it, and it worked in pure DOS. So now we know that it is Win 95 which won't
>> give exclusive access to the drive.
>
>It seems that they have added something to CHKDSK in Windows 95 so
>that it refuses to work from within a DJGPP program.  Sorry, I don't
>see how this can be solved.  You might consider asking Microsoft what
>exactly is the reason.

I would assume this is because if you have files open and run chkdsk, it'll
bomb your hd like mad when it assumes it has exclusive right to modify the
naughty bits and goes ahead and goes at it. Then when you close your program
and it writes out the buffered data... pakow. So they attempt to save you from
yourself.


Brennan
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