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Conference 7.286::visualc

Title:Microsoft Visual C/C++
Moderator:PLUGH::needle
Created:Tue Mar 16 1993
Last Modified:Wed Jun 04 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1121
Total number of notes:4385

1088.0. "Can't seek more than 2 Gig on NT?" by METALX::SWANSON (Victim of Changes) Tue Feb 18 1997 11:45

Hi,
    
    I posted this question in NT-DEVELOPERS notesfile, but haven't gotten
    a response there, so I'll ask here as well.  Maybe somebody knows
    the answer...

    From what I have read (and tried) you can't seek more than 2 Gigabytes
    on a disk due to a bug in NT.

    
    I am using the SetFilePointer() function to perform the seek, and
    using OpenFile() on "PhysicalDevice0" to get the handle.
    
    Is there a patch that fixes this problem?

    I'm surprised that I'm running into the problem even when trying to
    seek 0 bytes from the end of the disk.

    I am trying this on NT 4.0 AXP with service pak 1.

    Ken
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