rawritent.exe ?

Hi, does anyone know why rawritent.exe

http://search.mirrorservice.org/search/?q=rawrite

will only accept removable media ? Is there anything
that would break this algorithm for fixed disks?

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 22:15:36 +0100, Armando wrote:

Hi, does anyone know why rawritent.exe

http://search.mirrorservice.org/search/?q=rawrite

will only accept removable media ? Is there anything
that would break this algorithm for fixed disks?

This program had been designed for the floppies only.

I don't know what is your specific problem -- so can't give the concrete
answer, but the programs for the fixed disks with the similar (not exactly
same though) functions are the cloning programs, like Norton (Symantec) Ghost,
Partition Magic, Acronis True Image, etc. Some of the hexadecimal editors can
be used in some cases as well.

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Mikhail Zhilin
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I want to use it to copy a fixed partition, and I was just wondering
why is rawrite restricted to removable media, i.e. it does work
for usb disks

On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:45:13 +0100, Armando wrote:

I want to use it to copy a fixed partition ...

Then use one of the programs I mentioned already, for example -- Acronis True
Image.

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MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
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and I was just wondering
why is rawrite restricted to removable media, i.e. it does work
for usb disks

Because that's the way it was written. It only handles certain types of disk
structures, and it has no concept of USB--its hard-coded to look for specific
hardware types. In a word, it's very, very obsolete.

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Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User

Armando wrote in message ...
I want to use it to copy a fixed partition, and I was just wondering
why is rawrite restricted to removable media, i.e. it does work
for usb disks