FAT32 Disc Access

[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.

 

[August Derleth]

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]

 

[Christopher Benson-Manica]

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.

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