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Get physical disk of a logical drive letter
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17/03/2002 23:10:18
 
 
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02/03/2002 13:01:06
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Windows
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API
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00627427
Message ID:
00633973
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>I want to know is there a way to determine programmatically the physical location of a given logical letter. For example I have two hard drives, each of them with more than one partition.
>
>In windows NT/2K/XP (NTFS) with Disk Manager I can assign drive letters to each partition, in Windows 9x/ME (FAT, FAT32) the letters that are assigned to partitions are given by the OS.
>I want to know for example on which of the two (for example) hard disks resides drive letter 'E:'. I wish to determine this programmatically, from my own program.
>

Yes, the DeviceIoControl() API will do it - you need to use some of the discontinued functionality to work under systems prior to Win2K. Good luck implementing it.
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