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to: JONATHAN DE BOYNE POLLARD
from: MIKE RUSKAI
date: 1999-10-25 18:08:00
subject: Multiple primary HPFS

I've worked out finding partitions from the partition table with
DosDevIOCtl(), but translating the boot sector location value into a CHS
value.

There's one possibility, however, that I'm not sure how to deal with.

If a person has more than one primary partition on the one drive, all of
which are formatted HPFS (OS/2, and an OS/2 maintenance partition,
perhaps), then I'll be finding several candidate partitions.

Is there a simple way to figure out which one is correct?  Perhaps there's
a value for the partition status indicating whether the partition is
accessible or not?

Mike Ruskai
thannymeister@yahoo.com


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