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How to do atomic writes in a file

Let's assume that you want is to write some simple code that writes to a text file. A few assumptions: 1) You need avoid corruptions of any kind. 2) Either all of your writes have to make it to the disk, or none of them. 3) The file is updated serially Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 28, 2005 2:51 PM by AdiOltean | 3 Comments

DOSDEV.EXE - a misterious tool

Once in a while, you might encounter this tool in some Microsoft-provided SDKs, or Resource Kits, for example in the Windows Resource Kit, the Exchange Report Toolkit, and others. But this tool never came with any relevant documentation. It just displays Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 04, 2005 6:51 PM by AdiOltean | 4 Comments

How to query the list of disks/partitions for a certain volume (and viceversa)

A good comment in one of my previous posts : >>> Any idea how to get a Volume Name ( \\?\Vol{GUID }) or drive letter for a given disk XX + partition XX? i.e. If I have a partition table for DiskDrive0 I need to find out what volume/drive letter Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 04, 2005 9:13 PM by AdiOltean | 2 Comments

NTFS curiosities (Part I): Short file names

Aaron Stebner noted that it is possible to configure Windows to always use short file names. This is a legacy feature left over from the Windows 95 land. Sometimes, you just have to run some old MS-DOS applications. These apps will get confused about Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 27, 2005 9:42 PM by AdiOltean | 7 Comments
 
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