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I have to made a program which read all blocks of hard disk and after reading give me hard disk capacity and its bad block i C language. Kindly tell me how can i read hard disk blocks and how i can know this block is bad or ok
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Jump to PostI'm pretty sure you will have to write kernel-level program to do that. Here is a tutorial to help get started with the Windows DDK
IOCTL is another possibility
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I'm pretty sure you will have to write kernel-level program to do that. Here is a tutorial to help get started with the Windows DDK
IOCTL is another possibility
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haroonob
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No I just want to make a C Simple Program using interrupts or bios services
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No I just want to make a C Simple Program using interrupts or bios services
Not in MS-Windows or *nix you won't because the operating systems will not allow it. You might, however, use an old MS-DOS compiler such as TurboC with inline assembly code, but you will probably have problems with today's huge hard drives.
There is no simple solution to your problem.
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