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From: chrisg@microsoft.UUCP (Chris GUZAK)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Check for drive ready.
Message-ID: <71318@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 15 Mar 91 04:06:28 GMT
References: <1390@ssp18.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Reply-To: chrisg@microsoft.UUCP (Chris GUZAK)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <1390@ssp18.idca.tds.philips.nl> jvl@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (J. van Loenen) writes:
>Problem: If the user puts his disk in some drive, he has to put disks
>in all preceding drives too, otherwise windows will show a messagebox
>"drive not ready, Retry/Cancel", and the user has to click "cancel"
>many times, for each drive searched.
>
>Now my question: is it possible to decide if a drive is ready, without
>windows showing the messagebox?

SetErrorMode(1) turns off windows int24 critical error handler.
use it!  (that means everyone)

Chris