what's the windows API...

[garfield]

to read/write physical hard/floppy drive?

Thanks,

[mjc]

Garfield, could you, please not break your questions up between the title and the message body...it gets very confusing trying to read the question.

Not quite sure what you are asking either....



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[Whyzman]

Yep, it's confusing! http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/frown.gif

You might want to have a look HERE (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=windows+api). Enjoy! http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/wink.gif

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[garfield]

sorry about the confusion.

i want to read/write physical sectors on hard drive or floppy drive from a windows application (for example, a disk editor application). but i don't know which windows api i should use.

anybody can help??

[d03boy]

Dont ya think this should go under software or programming?

...d03boy

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[lala]

There is a freeware program out there called 2File and 2Floppy that copies sector by sector - and it included source code.

There is also an article at windows.com - see
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q138434

This explains how to do this for NT and CD-ROMS, it may work on Harddrives too.

[garfield]

i didn't know there's a s/w section on this forum. finally i find it:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/win32/devio_2b1v.asp

just in case somebody else is interested in the same subject.

thanks, guys,

[garfield]

unfortunately, the above method only works in windows 95/98/me, but not on windows 2000. still wondering...

[garfield]

this is it:
http://www.codeguru.com/system/ReadSector.html