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Quell
December 13th, 2004, 04:03 PM
Hey.
i was wondering how to copy a cd(or floppy) exectly as it is on one cd. That is with all the stuff in teh right places. It is gettin anying for me to ahve to redl ms dos and other oses such as linux jsut to make a copy of the disk....nad i am just generaly intrested in this.

NoHero
December 13th, 2004, 04:16 PM
By simply opening the drive (via 'CreateFile()') and reading every byte. I have done this several months ago. Maybe I will find the source in my hd mess. :rolleyes:

Quell
December 13th, 2004, 08:35 PM
CreateFile?...what do i pass down to it as a name of the file.....\\d:
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drive name? THat is write is it not?
and how do i read it byte by byte...i looked into ReadFile....do i use that one...cuz i didn not see anything realteaed to drive reading.....so i thinkg i screwed that one up.