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Chapter 5 - Disk Initialization Manager

Using the Disk Initialization Manager

The Disk Initialization Manager provides standard interfaces that allow your application

• to respond to the user's insertion of an unformatted or damaged disk by presenting the standard disk initialization dialog box
• to reinitialize valid disks, preserving their names but destroying their contents

You can override these standard interfaces by calling low-level Disk Initialization Manager routines, and you can also override the default volume characteristics that the Disk Initialization Manager gives to hierarchical volumes.

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Subtopics

Responding to Disk-Inserted Events

Erasing Initialized Disks

Overriding the Standard Initialization Interface

Changing Default Volume Characteristics