Disk Management

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I need to implement some functionality of the W2K Disk Management in my
application (examine disks and partitions management, create RAID and some
more actions).
Is there any information about “FT Disk” and “Logical Disk Manager”, which
are used by Disk Management snap-in?
I cannot find any in MSDN or on microsoft.com.

Thanks,
Dmitry.

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To examine disks you could issue the following IOCTLs
(what they do, is very well described in the DDK)
IOCTL_DISK_GET_DRIVE_GEOMETRY
IOCTL_DISK_GET_PARTITION_INFO(_EX)
IOCTL_DISK_GET_DRIVE_LAYOUT(_EX)
IOCTL_VOLUME_GET_VOLUME_DISK_EXTENTS
etc …

some links describing basic / dynamic disks
(don’t know if they are up to date)

Inside Storage Management Part 1 - NT Disk Management
www.win2000mag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=8127
Inside Storage Management Part 2 - W2K Disk Management
www.win2000mag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=8303

Discover Dynamic Disks
www.win2000mag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=8688

LDM DataBase
www.win2000mag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=8303
www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/ldmdump.shtml

Dynamic versus Basic Storage in Windows 2000
support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q175761

Regards
Else

Dmitry Shulgin

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I need to implement some functionality of the W2K Disk Management in my
application (examine disks and partitions management, create RAID and some
more actions).

Is there any information about “FT Disk” and “Logical Disk Manager”, which
are used by Disk Management snap-in?
I cannot find any in MSDN or on microsoft.com.

Thanks,
Dmitry.
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Disk ManagementIIRC this information can only be obtained from Veritas under NDA.

Max

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From: Dmitry Shulgin
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Subject: [ntfsd] Disk Management

I need to implement some functionality of the W2K Disk Management in my application (examine disks and partitions management, create RAID and some more actions).

Is there any information about “FT Disk” and “Logical Disk Manager”, which are used by Disk Management snap-in?
I cannot find any in MSDN or on microsoft.com.

Thanks,
Dmitry.

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