Tying into disk management and format gui's

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Is there any way to tie filesystem specific format commands into these
tools(the right click format menu and the disk management gui)? Some
sort of com object or registration thing that will run our tools or gui
instead? Or is this a case of MS owning the OS and making pretty shiny
gui’s really accessible for their products only?
allan

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You have looked at the article
http://www.sysinternals.com/sourcecode/fmifs.html I hope. I am not sure
whether if you report a different filesytem type it will work, but this is
worth experimenting.

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Don Burn (MVP, Windows DDK)
Windows 2k/XP/2k3 Filesystem and Driver Consulting
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> Is there any way to tie filesystem specific format commands into these
> tools(the right click format menu and the disk management gui)? Some sort
> of com object or registration thing that will run our tools or gui
> instead? Or is this a case of MS owning the OS and making pretty shiny
> gui’s really accessible for their products only?
> allan
>

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Don,

I did look at the article. It seems to deal with calling MS’ format and
chkdsk, not having the DriveProperties box call yours.

“This hierarchical arrangment makes it easy for Microsoft to add new
file system types to the system without having to write custom verions
of the file system management tools. They simply write a DLL for the new
file system type and make the management tools (like Explorer) aware of
the new format name.”

I guess where I’m stuck on is making management tools aware of the new
format name.

I tried copying the UNTFS.dll to another name, but there were no new
additions to the FS type drop down list. It would seem that this is
something from the SHDrive_Properties in SHell32.dll or something. I
also ran through the dll’s with strings, but didn’t see any registration
type functions or entry points to them

Thoughts?
Thanks,
Allan

Subject: Tying into disk management and format gui’s
From: Allan Graves
>Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 17:06:52 -0400
>X-Message-Number: 16
>
>Is there any way to tie filesystem specific format commands into these
>tools(the right click format menu and the disk management gui)? Some
>sort of com object or registration thing that will run our tools or gui
>instead? Or is this a case of MS owning the OS and making pretty shiny
>gui’s really accessible for their products only?
>allan
>
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>Subject: Re: Tying into disk management and format gui’s
>From: “Don Burn”
>Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 17:12:53 -0400
>X-Message-Number: 17
>
>You have looked at the article
>http://www.sysinternals.com/sourcecode/fmifs.html I hope. I am not sure
>whether if you report a different filesytem type it will work, but this is
>worth experimenting.
>
>
>
>