From: Silver <SilverBanana AT gmx DOT de>
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Subject: Bios
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 21:55:58 +0200
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Hi!

I was jsut trying to dump my partition table (an 80 GB hd). So I wrote
this program:

#include <conio.h>
#include <bios.h>

int main()
{
	textmode(C4350);
	clrscr();
	unsigned char c[512];
  if (biosdisk(2, 0x81, 0, 0, 0, 1, c))
    cprintf("Error: disk");
	for(int x=0; x<512; x+=16)
	{
	for(int i=0; i<16; i++)
	{
		cprintf("%2x ",c[x+i]);
	}
	for(int i=0; i<16; i++)
	{
		unsigned char a=c[x+i];
		if (a<' ') {a=' ';}
		cprintf("%c",a);
	}
		cprintf("\r\n");
	}
}

However: It did not dump my partition table. Instead it prints some
unidentifiable data. biosdisk writes something into my memory and it is
consistent over all sessions. I am sure anyway that it is not my
partition table. The program has to work under Windows 98 SE. 

Any ideas why it doesn't work as wanted and how I could fix it?

Thanks in advance

Silver