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Hi,

I am wondering if anyone knows how the program 'partcopy' accesses the disk directly in windows. I have a couple of methods that work, but they only seem to work about 25% of the time, but when I use partcopy it works 100% of the time. I have tried putting Sleep() statements between my code to allow the floppy to catch up but it doesn't work.

I was simply going to use partcopy from within my program but I need more detailed information about errors and stuff, simply redirecting console output does not give me what I need.

Cheers.

Ignore this, problem solved. thanks.

How was it solved?

gud day,
let me push up this topic again pls

i can access sectors of logical drive (indicated in Mbr) by visual c++
using CreateFile, ReadFile, WriteFile

but i still dont know how to access physical drive through visual c++
on windows

help... me......

You may want to use dd for any images anywhere. It works and saves you from writing your own stuff.

Visual c++ is a compiler, not an image writer. Also, CreateFile is the correct system call. MSDN has the necessary information about all this. Please don't be stupid enough to overwrite your harddisk's MBR.

tkx, i've found it how,
just use \\.\PhysicalDriveN in CreateFile function

you know how to differentiate between HDD & USB?
coz my USB is also listed as physical drive

Second STFW in one day.