Windows 98 batch file to check floppy disk status

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The Tek-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action. Click Here to join Tek-Tips and talk with other members! Already a Member? Join your peers on the Internet's largest technical computer professional community. You are gettiing a very low level dos error Abort, Retry or Fail that has to be resopnded too. Win98 did not have the contol over these low level functions that NT class 32 bit windows has.

XP is being "controling" to possibly protect itself from DOS. There is some very complex ways to do this using for next loops and ctty etc. But a simpler way is to download a program that can handle this error correctly. There are many programs that can handle this and report the errorlevel.

Download pkzip and copy it to the Windows folder so it will be in the path, or you can put it elsewhere but will need to address its path correctly in the batch. Pkzip has an error checking routine that can handle the Abort, Retry Good dog!

Hi, Many thanks for your help. I will download the utility and give this script a go. I jumped the gun! Don't bother, I have used this before but it may have been on 2k or a lower sp in XP, but I just tested it again on XP pro sp2 and it failed.

Sorry I didn't test it again sooner but I was involved with several things when I posted. But here is a even simpler way. That I tested. DOS is a non-graphical line-oriented command-driven computer operating system. It has a relatively simple--but not overly "friendly"--user interface. The earliest versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system were really just applications that ran on top of the MS-DOS operating system.

The command prompt allows Windows users to issue DOS commands to the system.