disk key info

NTDEV
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Hi,
on winnt the fault tolerant information about volumes is kept in a
registry key HKLM\System\Disk\information. But this is in binary form. Is
there any tool from microsoft which parses this or is there any documented
way of retrieving it. In sysinternals.com there is a utility called diskkey
which does this. But it’s not a documented way. Any info is very helpful for
my project.
Thanks in advance,
Nagesh Bhattu

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“Nagesh Bhattu” wrote in message
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>
> registry key HKLM\System\Disk\information. But this is in binary form. Is
> there any tool from microsoft which parses this or is there any documented
> way of retrieving it. In sysinternals.com there is a utility called
diskkey
>

IIRC, this information is all described in one of the DDK header files…
ftdisk.h, or ftdd.h, or some such thing. I think if you do some looking
around, you’ll find it. Not exactly documentation, but close enough…

Peter
OSR

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www.sysinternals.com had an article on this.

Max

----- Original Message -----
From: “Nagesh Bhattu”
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Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 4:38 PM
Subject: [ntdev] disk key info

> Hi,
> on winnt the fault tolerant information about volumes is kept in
a
> registry key HKLM\System\Disk\information. But this is in binary
form. Is
> there any tool from microsoft which parses this or is there any
documented
> way of retrieving it. In sysinternals.com there is a utility called
diskkey
> which does this. But it’s not a documented way. Any info is very
helpful for
> my project.
> Thanks in advance,
> Nagesh Bhattu
>
>
>
>
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