Skip Removable drive error

[starzboy]

Hello
I am trying to write a little code which will get the disk info of my removable drive which is a Floppy drive.
When there is a floppy in the drive, the function works well but when there is no floppy, i get an error - 'Windows - Drive not ready'.
how can i skip this error message when there is no floppy in the drive ?
Please help.

[Vortex]

How do you retrieve the status info of the floppy?

[Mark Jones]

Hi, maybe this is doing something like what you want: DriveWait / DW GUI

http://www.masm32.com/board/index.php?topic=5317.0

[starzboy]

@Vortex
I dont do any check to check status of floppy, i just use GetDriveType to identify the removable drive, and then createfile to access the files.
Should i do a status check ?
If yes then how ?

@Mark
Thanks for the help, i will look into it, maybe its of use to me.

[Vortex]

With retrieving the status, I meant getting disk info.

[starzboy]

@Vortex
I tried to calculate the free space etc, but the moment the code tries to access the disk i get the error message.
I try to use the SetErrorMode to supress the error and it works but the program lags, its just that the error dosent show.
What can be done about this ?
Please help.

[farrier]

starzboy,

Try:

http://www.masm32.com/board/index.php?topic=2240.msg17809#msg17809

hth,

farrier

[starzboy]

Hello
thanks for the help.
That is exactly what i had been using for the time being, but you see the program lags, the error does not show but the program lags, and i am using a timer so the program lags a lot, hope you understand.