Currently I am writing disk images to floppy with batch files to do installation routines. To write the disk image I use DITU.exe. I want to put this into a windows format and program it in VB.

Can I call external batch files and executables to use in my VB program or should I be using API's? I have not been able to find any information on using .exe, batch files or dos type commands.

Is there an API to to format a 1.44" floppy and make it bootable?

Any help would be appreciated!