Retreiving drive geometry using Win32 API

[pistole]

Hi All,

I'm trying desperately to find functions to retreive the _physical_ geometry from a disk under Win9x and WinNT/Win2k

Anyone got any ideas? GetDiskFreeSpaceEx is not an option - that gives information on a _logical_ drive

Thanks!

[KoWind7]

What language are you using? And do you want the drives geometry, or what the bios has it set as. These can and often are different.

[pistole]

I'm using MS Visual C++ (6.0sp5) and would like to retreive the information how just like in System Information (msinfo32.exe)

Thanks!

[KoWind7]

I'm not a C++ guru, but I'll see if I can find anything tonight.

[pistole]

thanks alot! I'm not a C guru as well (I have sleepless night because of these pointers to references to strings ... <IMG SRC="smilies/mad.gif" border="0"> )

[Deity]

LOL! I feel your pain. We've all been at that place in our programming career. I'll see if I can come up with any info for you as well.

[Deity]

I found this on MSDN. I assume you've seen it too... http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/winbase/filesio_4lf7.htm

I believe that System Information collects its info from several of these functions, not just one. From what I see, GetDiskFreeSpace, GetDiskFreeSpaceEx, and GetDriveType are the functions used.

This is another list of functions used for System Information... http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/sysmgmt/sysinfo_8stv.htm

I'll keep searching though, might be able to come up with more.