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   Bart to All   
   Re: Marco&Femme /Volume-Name - output dr   
   26 Feb 07 22:05:28   
   
   From: broersma.juda_ANTISPAM_@tiscali.nl   
      
   Op Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:25:27 GMT schreef nobody   
   :   
      
   >Dear Gentlemen,   
   >   
   >thank you very much for your effort.   
   >   
   >I do have a solution (saving all partitions collected by following the   
   >partition-chains starting from the MBR's (#)  in an array and then   
   >using this array to get the drive-Number ), but I thought,there should   
   >be a more elegant solution, which I might have overseen.   
   >(#) I know,there are easier ways to find the partitions, but so I also   
   >can access the free (not partitioned )  parts of the Harddisks.   
   >(SWAG and RSWAG do not seem to touch this question)   
      
   I think finding all partitions is the only reliable way to do this. I   
   can't find any BIOS or DOS interrupt that leads to some solution to   
   your question.   
   If you're running this in "plain DOS" it'll be OK, but I guess you're   
   screwed if you run in in an "XP DOS box".   
      
   Bart   
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