Hard drive information using S.M.A.R.T.

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Introduction

The core part is to prepare the command structure and pass it to the device driver which communicates with the hard drive. It uses the DeviceIoControl function. For eg: bRet=DeviceIoControl(hDevice,SMART_SEND_DRIVE_COMMAND,&stCIP,sizeof(stCIP),&stCOP,sizeof(stCOP),&dwRet,NULL);

Don't forget to include the "DDKInclude" folder in the workspace to your VC's include folder before compiling. This sample is only intended for beginners. Most of the information for S.M.A.R.T. is available in the net.

Also the information for each id is stored in an .ini file. You can see that in the Debug / Release folder.

Double click on any of the item in the list box to get more information about it. For e.g., xx sector count

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