Re: Locking drives for exclusive access under Win32

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From: Remy Lebeau (TeamB)
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 16:12

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"Andrue Cope" <not.a.valid@email.address.sorry> wrote in message
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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.

Look at DeviceIoControl() and various Int 21h commands such as the
following:

    Int 21h Function 440Dh Minor Code 4Ah
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/win9x/fat32_7q9c.asp

    Int 21h Function 440Dh Minor Code 4Bh
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/win9x/fat32_7tf4.asp

    Int 21h Function 440Dh Minor Code 6Ah
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/win9x/fat32_2n8w.asp

    Int 21h Function 440Dh Minor Code 6Bh
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/win9x/fat32_2qeo.asp


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