SomeGuy
Veteran Member
Is there a good way to fully disable the Windows 9x volume tracker? That is the thing that writes the "IHC" junk over the OEM label when you use a floppy disk with Windows 9x/ME.
You can't just delete Voltrack.vxd, because then Windows will think every disk is unformatted (or at least it did for me).
There is the "NoVoltrk.reg" file that is floating around out there, but it is not absolute.
That adds the entries:
Right off the bat, DOS 1.x formatted disks don't use the 55AA signature. And that is only supposed to indicate if the sector is bootable or not.
Logically, any MS-DOS formatted disk with boot code should start with a jump, but it would be interesting to see how many exceptions there are to this.
The reg file also has a long list of alternate values lumped under unused keys, BUT apparently voltrack can only handle a tiny number of registry values under the NoVolTrack key. (less than 256 needed to eliminate all possibilities). More than a certain number of values and it won't work. Duuuuuh.
It's also not 100% clear off hand if it still writes back to the boot sector or not. Although I would think it wouldn't.
Sure, sure, write protect tabs and all. But mistakes happen.
You can't just delete Voltrack.vxd, because then Windows will think every disk is unformatted (or at least it did for me).
There is the "NoVoltrk.reg" file that is floating around out there, but it is not absolute.
That adds the entries:
Code:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem\NoVolTrack]
; valid DOS 2.0+ formatted boot sectors:
"Any DOS formatted disk 0" = hex:FE,01,55,AA ; any formatted disk (signature) (not really true any more); BeOS 3.2 disks
"Any DOS formatted disk 1" = hex:00,00,EB ; any formatted disk (modern)
"Any DOS formatted disk 2" = hex:00,00,E9 ; any formatted disk (old)
"Any DOS formatted disk 3" = hex:00,00,90 ; any formatted disk (NOP)
"Any DOS formatted disk 4" = hex:00,00,69 ; any formatted diskRight off the bat, DOS 1.x formatted disks don't use the 55AA signature. And that is only supposed to indicate if the sector is bootable or not.
Logically, any MS-DOS formatted disk with boot code should start with a jump, but it would be interesting to see how many exceptions there are to this.
The reg file also has a long list of alternate values lumped under unused keys, BUT apparently voltrack can only handle a tiny number of registry values under the NoVolTrack key. (less than 256 needed to eliminate all possibilities). More than a certain number of values and it won't work. Duuuuuh.
It's also not 100% clear off hand if it still writes back to the boot sector or not. Although I would think it wouldn't.
Sure, sure, write protect tabs and all. But mistakes happen.
