Win Security Issue? DOS app access to floppy

[gjraynor]

When running a DOS app in a (non-networked) Win 2000 DOS box, the DOS app tries to copy a file to a floppy drive. Windows denies the app permission to write to drive A: while I can still use DOS to copy files to the floppy from the DOS box. (Everything works OK in Win 98). Is there some Windows 2000 security setting that can deny the user access to a floppy drive??

 

[CoolClark]

That dos app is most likely trying to access the floppy directly. NT/2000/XP don't allow direct hardware access.

 

[gjraynor]

Thanks for the reply. The software is using standard DOS calls rather than trying to directly access the hardware - and works OK if the destination is a harddrive or the OS is Win98 etc. Any other ideas??