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PD_CreatePartition (Compact 2013)

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3/26/2014

This function creates a partition on the store volume.

Syntax

DWORD PD_CreatePartition(
  DWORD dwStoreId,
  LPCTSTR szPartName,
  BYTE bPartType, 
  SECTORNUM numSectors, 
  BOOL bAuto
);

Parameters

  • dwStoreId
    [in] Handle returned by the PD_OpenStore function.
  • szPartName
    [in] Name of the new partition to create.

  • bPartType
    [in] Partition type or identifier. A partition format can support only 256 different partition types. There is no one-to-one correspondence between this identifier and the types of file systems supported. The number of file systems is lower because multiple partition types can map to the same file system, and some partition types have no associated file system.

    Partition type

    Description

    PART_DOS2_FAT

    DOS partition.

    PART_DOS3_FAT

    DOS partition.

    PART_DOS4_FAT

    DOS partition.

    PART_DOS32

    DOS partition (FAT32).

    PART_DOS32X13

    Same as 0x0B, only use logical block addressing (LBA).

    PART_DOSX13

    Same as 0x06, only use LBA.

    PART_DOSX13X

    Same as 0x05, only use LBA.

    INVALID

    Partition type is invalid or not used.

    PART_UNKNOWN

    Partition type is unknown.
  • numSectors
    [in] A 64-bit number indicating the size of the partition to create. A partition driver is not required to support the full 64 bits.
  • bAuto
    [in] When this flag is set, bPartType is ignored, and the partition driver can generate the appropriate partition type for the default file system type that it supports. In the case of FAT, it selects a partition type, based on the number of sectors in this partition, FAT12, FAT16 or FAT32.

Return Value

TRUE indicates success. FALSE indicates failure.

Requirements

Header

partdrv.h

See Also

Reference

Partition Manager Functions
PD_OpenStore