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Look at the documentation on the function CreateFile.  Look for
where it speaks of Physical Disks and Volumes.

Also look at the DeviceIoControl function and the IOCTL_* messages,
including IOCTL_DISK_GET_DRIVE_GEOMETRY_EX to get information which
will help in understanding where on the disk to look.

You can get that information from the platform SDK or from the
MSDN site:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp

.  Ed

> Babak wrote in message
> news:4481f29e@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Hi
> when I was programming under DOS and FAT16 I was using this
> code to read sectors and store them into a file for future needs,
> now my partition are FAT32 and I stuck in Microsoft Windows ,
> Although I am using both 98 and XP but I have problem in both.
> My problem is I cant use absread() and abswrite() anymore, I
> dont know any function for my aim,...
> If anyone can help me to change this source code to a code that
> BCB5 could compile and I can use it for FAT32, please tell me ,
> thanks a milion :-)
>
> #include "stdio.h"
> #include "stdlib.h"
> #include "conio.h"
> #include "dos.h"
>
> #define SECTORS_PER_READ 16
> #define END_SECTOR  1000
> void main(void){
>  int i, strt, ch_out, start_sector=0;
>  char buf[512*SECTORS_PER_READ];
>  if (absread(2, SECTORS_PER_READ, start_sector, &buf) != 0){
>   perror("Read ABS from Disk Problem! Program Exit !");
>   exit(1);
>  }
>  printf("Reading OK and going on...\n");
>  for (i=0; i<END_SECTOR; i++){
>    //do something like store in a file
>  }
> }