Locking drives for exclusive access under Win32

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From: Andrue Cope
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 15:44

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We need to be able to lock a physical drive while we write an image 
to it. I can't find anything in the help so far other than for Win9x 
and was wondering if anyone here knew how to lock a physical drive 
under Win32.
--
Andrue Cope
[Bicester, UK]

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