Read/write in the reserved space of pen drive

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I'm developing application for interfacing with pen drive. I got handle using CreateFile() and i did read & write operations for tesing. My objective is to write value in the reserved space of the pen drive. Shall i read/write in the reserved space of the pen drive. If possible how can i do. Please anyone help from this issue.

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Mohan

Posted 10-Jan-11 0:51am

Mohanraj Sam

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Espen Harlinn · Answer 1 · 2011-01-10T01:13:00

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I'm guessing here - but usually I would think that by reserved space we are talking about space that is used by the file system. If you are not entirely sure what you are doing I would consider looking at source code for the file system in question.

You may possibly get an open source implmentation for your required filesystem from linux. Just search google ...

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Espen Harlinn

Posted 10-Jan-11 1:13am

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Mohanraj Sam 10-Jan-11 7:29am

Thanks for your answer.
But API calls or IOCTL call may vary for Windows and Linux, right?

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Mohan

Espen Harlinn 10-Jan-11 7:37am

Yes, that's right, but you still need info on what you are doing - messing around with the filesystem requires knowledge ....