Does anyone know/remember the actual read/write speed of floppy disks? I want to use this as a tidbit for arguing how painfully slow our Sharepoint server is, but all the websites with information ...

How do I write a .bin file to be in the first sector of a floppy disk/virtual floppy disk/floppy image? I'm trying to boot a simple 512-byte bootloader. The size on everywhere says "512 bytes" so ...

I am amidst writing a kernel; before writing such a complicated thing, I thought it'd, not only, be helpful but also imperitive to do some theoretical reading of kernels, bootloaders, registers, BI...

I am trying to check does any disk is present in drive A: (after my program installs i need to ensure that computer won't boot from installation diskette). I've tried using _access method (undefine...

I have been reading BrokenThorn's OS development tutorial and am at the part of creating and loading the second stage bootloader. The tutorial is for Windows, but I am doing this in Linux(Ubuntu 13...

There are a lot of posts to show to create a virtual floppy image file as a super user or users can run sudo command. The basic steps are: create empty 1.44MB image file by dd command forma...

On Windows (XP-7), is there a reliable way of programatically differentiating between USB floppy drives and USB flash drives in C++? At the moment, I'm using WMI to get updates when new Win32_Logi...

Following up on the "How do I code and compile an Amiga application?" question, which development library is required to boot an Amiga application from a floppy disk? Update: (2012-04-10) To consi...