Writing to specific sectors

pcmattman · Post by **pcmattman** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 7:26 pm

Hello all, I've run into a problem. I need to write my kernel to the sector directly after the bootsector, but so far my attempts at writing a sector copy program have not worked and I can't find a Windows version of this sort of program. Does anyone know any links to programs that can do this?

(My C++ code opened "\\.\A:" to directly access the disk, which didn't work)

JackScott · Post by **JackScott** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 8:32 pm

http://www.osdever.net/downloads/other/pcopy02.zip

That is the partcopy program, which can be used on DOS/Windows to write bootsectors, and it can be used for other floppy-related tasks as well. I hope this is what you want.

pcmattman · Post by **pcmattman** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 9:07 pm

Sounds good, I'll look into it and see if it works.

mohammed · Post by **mohammed** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 3:09 am

in this program you can't specify a sector it write in the first sector only right ??

JackScott · Post by **JackScott** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 3:25 am

From the documentation:

USAGE:
PARTCOPY source source_offset length destination {destination_offset}

It seems the final parameter allows you to select an offset.[/quote]