Recognizing CD-ROM drive and locking its eject button

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Hi guys,

Im trying to code a program to lock my cd-rom drive eject button for my laptop. I saw on windows' website that i can use DeviceIoControl() to do that, and I have to open a handle for the CD-ROM using CreateFile(), but how can I do that? I mean, how do I recognize the CD-ROM?

thx

Posted 28-Dec-14 7:40am

uSergim

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BillWoodruff 28-Dec-14 16:05pm

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http://stackoverflow.com/a/9579881/133321

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