BinaryWork Disk Format OCX 1.1 - VB5 ( with SP3 ) version

ActiveX OCX to format and verify floppy disks, removable disks and hard disks , with others functions related to disk access , and it will detect and report any problem referred to the disks or drives , with this control you can write and read from removable disks without the risk of losing data , this control can format also Zip Drives or any other large removable media  ,  VB5 and VB6 versions are available , sample project included

Important !!! : This OCX can format your HDs , floppy disks and any other media , then be carefull testing this OCX in your system

What is new in version 1.1 - A few bugs fixeds , improved the format function , improved also the verification of the system when accessing the operating system to format disks , enhanced the method that OCX is terminated when the format function is running , and now the CancelFormat function will return the control to the system in 2 seconds and it will release the drive that is being formated instantly

Description

With this OCX you can develop your own disk format utility

This OCX can be very important to avoid the utilization of removable disks that have some bad sectors , and it will mark the bad sectors during the format function

During the format function the OCX will verify the integrity of the disks and drives

And it will report any problem found during the format function

Since the disk is ok , then the format function will not report any problem

And this OCX have support also to large removable media like Zip Drives , Jaz , Ditto and any other known removable media available

If the disk or drive can be detected in Windows Explorer , then it can be formatted and verified by this OCX
And this OCX will format hard disks also

The progress position of the format function will be reported perfectly

You can define the method of the format , and it can be Quick , Full , Unconditional and format and copy the system files ( make disk bootable )

And in case of floppy disks , you can define the size of the disk

With this OCX , now the Zip Compress OCX 3.0.4 can read and write directly to removable media , and it can also split large Zip files in multiples diskettes ( spanning disks ) ( the Disk Format OCX is required in order to access removable disks using Zip Compress OCX 3.0.4 )


Operating System Compliance

This version of the control was developed and tested only in Win98 , and it will not work at this moment in WinNT 40 or WinNT 5.0 , the next release will be Win95/98/NT40/NT50 compatible .

Instalation : extract both Zip files to an empty directory , execute
setup.exe to install the OCX , after then open the sample.vbp in your VB

Bugs and sugestions can be emailed to

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