re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks'
Tuesday, April 16, 2002 at 8:11 pm
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Posted by Gennadiy
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On Tuesday, April 16, 2002 at 1:56 am, Jack Gulley wrote:
>I have a question about Stop
>Windows from Altering Floppy Disks:
>The problem of Windows 9x changing the boot record of MS-DOS and non Windows boot
>diskettes has been a Major problem for me. I have a number of older programs that
>I often run from these bootable diskettes. The programs will not run under windows
>at all. The diskettes must be writable as files on them get updated. However,
to
>print out these files or send them to someone else I must boot Windows and access
>the diskettes. I also have to copy files to the diskettes that have been sent to
>me, under Windows. When I do this, the boot record gets modified. One set of programs
>check the the boot record for any changes and will lockup. The others will halt
>with a divide overflow, when updating the files, usually after an hour or so of
work.
>
>So setting the write tab as suggested in the article is not a good solution for
me.
> Any time I have to update the diskette with files downloaded under Windows, the
>diskette must be writable. And I have worn out several diskette write tabs over
>the years, flipping them back a forth. I must remember to change the tab or these
>diskettes get corrupted.
>
>My solution has been to keep an older machine that runs DOS and use a patch program
>to fix the boot records when they are modifed by Windows. This takes time, usually
>after I have lost work because I forgot to switch the tab. There are also times
>when I do not have a DOS only machine available to fix the diskettes after writing
>the files to them.
>
>So I have been looking for a way to turn OFF this "feature" of Windows in ME. So
>far no luck. Has anyone found a way to turn this OFF, short of patching some DLL
>in Windows ME code?
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