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Rob
Does anyone have any idea of any API that exists, or functions that
others have created to find out the start cluster address of any
particular file on a FAT32 formatted disc.
I dont mind using linux to do this, as i presume windows would never
allow low level access to the disc like this.
Nov 14 '05 #1
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On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 10:01:38 -0700, Rob wrote:
Does anyone have any idea of any API that exists, or functions that
others have created to find out the start cluster address of any
particular file on a FAT32 formatted disc.
Not in comp.lang.c. This newsgroup is full of C language people, not hard
drive formatting people.

[OT] I dont mind using linux to do this, as i presume windows would never
allow low level access to the disc like this.


Linux doesn't allow low-level disk access, either, unless you have the
right permissions.

The only OS I can think of that would allow low-level disk access to
random users and would run on the same hardware that would use FAT32 to
format disks would be a DOS variant.
[/OT]

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Nov 14 '05 #2
Rob <ro*******@hotm ail.com> spoke thus:
Does anyone have any idea of any API that exists, or functions that
others have created to find out the start cluster address of any
particular file on a FAT32 formatted disc.
I dont mind using linux to do this, as i presume windows would never
allow low level access to the disc like this.


1) Do not multi-post.
2) Do not crosspost either(*)
3) It's off-topic here too.

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