Topic: Open Disk (1 of 5), Read 105 times
Conf: Startup, File Open, Exit
From: Clint Danbury
Date: Friday, February 18, 2000 04:52 PM

Is "open disk" a No-No in NT ?

 

Topic: Open Disk (2 of 5), Read 95 times
Conf: Startup, File Open, Exit
From: Ted Green
Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 02:42 PM

That is correct; NT does not allow the kind of low level BIOS access that disk sector editing requires.

Ted.

 

Topic: Open Disk (3 of 5), Read 97 times
Conf: Startup, File Open, Exit
From: Pauli Lindgren
Date: Thursday, February 24, 2000 08:34 AM

Well, it is possible to open disk on NT.
I have not tried to edit the disk contents, but at least it is possible to view it.

-- Pauli

 

Topic: Re: Open Disk (4 of 5), Read 103 times
Conf: Startup, File Open, Exit
From: Ted Green
Date: Thursday, February 24, 2000 11:29 AM

Yes, you can read IDE disks under Win95/98/NT, but you cannot make any
changes. You can only make changes when running under real DOS, i.e. you
boot with a DOS disk.

Since the disk sector editing cannot write under Win95/98/NT, does not
support disks larger than 8 Gigs, does not support SCSI disks, etc., etc.,
and was never widely used, we have no plans to update/enhance it.

Ted.

 

Topic: Re: Open Disk (5 of 5), Read 57 times
Conf: Startup, File Open, Exit
From: Steve Rawling
Date: Monday, December 31, 2001 07:28 PM

Ted wrote
"Since the disk sector editing cannot write under Win95/98/NT, does not
support disks larger than 8 Gigs, does not support SCSI disks, etc., etc.,
and was never widely used, we have no plans to update/enhance it."

I rarely use disk sector editing. Actually I just recently needed in to recover data from a file which I allowed to be overwritten by a file of the same name which I was copying from another directory.


I use vpw exclusively now and when I went to its menu and found disk sector editing was unavailable in vpw I was just a little surprised.

I accept the decision not to offer disk sector EDITING in vpw if it was not widely used. However disk sector browsing and copying and pasting to a vpw buffer or else where should, I humbly imagine, be less of a problem to impliment.

Rather than use VEDIT.exe I discovered WINHEX (http://www.sf-soft.de/winhex/) - a 32bit GUI shareware app, which did the job and impressed me.

Steve