Re: RE: tlug: Rawwrite3 problem

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Gavin Walker wrote:

> >I think that there is a problem using rawrite under NT. At least I
> have never
> >got it to work. However, it works fine under Win95 and DOS (rather
> than a dos
> >prompt under NT). I suspect that rawrite tries to directly access some
> hardware
> >and Win NT doesn't allow it. 
> 
> I guess so. To quote RAWRITE.DOC...
> 
> "This program uses well-documented generic low-level DOS and BIOS
> functions. It should run on nearly every PC in existance."
> 
> ...but obviously not one's with NT. That's a bit of a PITA as I don't
> have a PC here with anything *but* NT as an OS. I guess I'll zip up
> RAWRITES bits and pieces and then seek out a DOS box.
> 

That's right!  No version of rawrite ever made (to my knowledge) will work
on NT.  Neither will loadlin, since you can't shut down to a dos prompt
like you can with 95.

If you can make a DOS boot disk, then you can do rawrite.. assuming that
you're not using NTFS partitions...

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