> when we repeat the same answers over and over again over the years,
Encryption questions are especially annoying 
(“It does not work with Notepad, heeeeelp !!!”)
L.
No, it is fun to watch. It says that everyone seems to want to reinvent the
wheel. There are and have been encryption drivers for Windows 2000 and
later from SafeBoot to several other special purpose ones. It also appears
that a lot of people have things they want to protect or they think others
have things they want to protect. My feeling is that they really don’t want
to protect their data or it would be protected. Backups would have
smartcards in the tape drives that provided keys to encrypt the backups, so
if they were lost in transit to off-site storage there would be no data
loss.
“Ladislav Zezula” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntfsd…
>> when we repeat the same answers over and over again over the years,
>
> Encryption questions are especially annoying
> (“It does not work with Notepad, heeeeelp !!!”)
>
> L.
>
>
>
Hmm … “bizarre streams behaviour” … sounds like a most excellent
discussion item for your mini-filter course :
“Tony Mason” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntfsd…
Isn’t it sad Max, when we repeat the same answers over and over again
over the years, index them and make it easy to search and still people
don’t respect us enough to even do a little bit of background work?
I don’t mind answering questions and discussing issues (oh, like why the
rename behavior doesn’t fit the documentation - and Lyndon, I’m ready
to talk about bizarre streams behavior) but I’m wondering if I’m the
only person who believes that after 10+ years of doing this we deserve
at least some modicum of respect by those asking questions of the forum,
and that doing a search of the archives is a rather minimal level of
effort to ask to demonstrate that respect?
Tony
Tony Mason
Consulting Partner
OSR Open Systems Resources, Inc.
http://www.osr.com
Max, Tony, Thank you very much!
I have tried searching the archives again and again, but I didn’t find anything that can be used in my program.
Thanks!
Maxim,Thanks very much!
If the disk partition is a raw disk partition, I can’t find any volume that belongs to the partition.so I can’t use the FSCTL_DISMOUNT_VOLUME .
what should I do ,if I want to format a RAW disk, and notify the system to assign a drive letter?
The code platform is Windows 2000.
Thanks in advance!
Maxim S. Shatskih
xxxxx@storagecraft.com Join Date: 23 Feb 2000
Posts To This List: 2529
Re: How to notify system that the disk filesystem has been changed?
The correct sequence:
- FSCTL_LOCK_VOLUME
- do your writes
- FSCTL_DISMOUNT_VOLUME
- FSCTL_UNLOCK_VOLUME
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Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation
xxxxx@storagecraft.com
http://www.storagecraft.com
wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntfsd…
> Hi,everyone
> I wrote a disk format program, which modifies the disk sector directly.
> For example , if the original disk is RAW, my program can format is as FAT or
FAT32.
> But after formatting the disk with this program, the system can’t recognize
the disk filesystem. To solve this problem, I have to eject the disk,and insert
it again.
>
> So, How can I notify the system in driver that the disk file system has been
changed?
> User mode method is ok, but kernel mode method is better
>
> Thanks!
>
>
I think you should have the correct value in the partition table.
I used to play with it some time ago, as soon as I remember if I specify
invalid partition type for a valid FAT32 volume in a partition table then
Windows does not mount the volume at all. If I specify FAT32 type in a
partition table for an invalid (RAW) volume then the partition is mounted
but is not readable until I format it using the sequence provided by Maxim.
Thanks,
Roman
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news:xxxxx@ntfsd…
> Maxim,Thanks very much!
> If the disk partition is a raw disk partition, I can’t find any volume
> that belongs to the partition.so I can’t use the FSCTL_DISMOUNT_VOLUME .
> what should I do ,if I want to format a RAW disk, and notify the system to
> assign a drive letter?
>
> The code platform is Windows 2000.
>
> Thanks in advance!
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Maxim S. Shatskih
> xxxxx@storagecraft.com Join Date: 23 Feb 2000
> Posts To This List: 2529
>
> Re: How to notify system that the disk filesystem has been changed?
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The correct sequence:
>
> - FSCTL_LOCK_VOLUME
> - do your writes
> - FSCTL_DISMOUNT_VOLUME
> - FSCTL_UNLOCK_VOLUME
>
> –
> Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
> StorageCraft Corporation
> xxxxx@storagecraft.com
> http://www.storagecraft.com
>
> wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntfsd…
>> Hi,everyone
>> I wrote a disk format program, which modifies the disk sector directly.
>> For example , if the original disk is RAW, my program can format is as
>> FAT or
> FAT32.
>> But after formatting the disk with this program, the system can’t
>> recognize
> the disk filesystem. To solve this problem, I have to eject the disk,and
> insert
> it again.
>>
>> So, How can I notify the system in driver that the disk file system has
>> been
> changed?
>> User mode method is ok, but kernel mode method is better
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>
>
>
>