Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks'
Tuesday, April 16, 2002 at 1:56 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jack Gulley
(5917 messages posted)
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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