Can I monitor the partition's formating action?

NTDEV
1

I want to write a disk filter driver, can I capture the partition format
action? That before format I want to do some my action.
Thanks.

2

Sure, just handle IRP_MJ_WRITE coming down the disk stack. If you are below
disk.sys, then you will have to handle SRBs.

“Sun Jiajie” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntdev…
>I want to write a disk filter driver, can I capture the partition format
>action? That before format I want to do some my action.
> Thanks.
>
>

3

No you cannot, formatting is just a serie of writes.

Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation
xxxxx@storagecraft.com
http://www.storagecraft.com

----- Original Message -----
From: “Sun Jiajie”
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Subject: [ntdev] Can I monitor the partition’s formating action?

> I want to write a disk filter driver, can I capture the partition format
> action? That before format I want to do some my action.
> Thanks.
>
>
>
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