Obtaining File System Recognition Information
File system recognition is the ability to recognize storage media that contain a valid file system/volume layout that has not been defined yet, but the media is able to identify itself through the presence of the recognition structure defined internally by Windows.
Because no existing file system will recognize a new disk layout, the "RAW" file system will mount the volume and provide direct block level access. The "RAW" file system, incorporated in NtosKrnl, will have the ability to read the file system recognition structure and provide applications access to such structures through the file system control request FSCTL_QUERY_FILE_SYSTEM_RECOGNITION, shown in the following example.
STDMETHODIMP CheckFileSystem(
PCWSTR pcwszDrive
)
{
HRESULT hr = S_OK;
HANDLE hDisk = INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE;
BOOL fResult = FALSE;
ULONG BytesReturned = 0;
FILE_SYSTEM_RECOGNITION_INFORMATION FsRi = {0};
//
// Open the target, for example "\\.\C:"
//
wprintf( L"CreateFile on %s...", pcwszDrive );
hDisk = CreateFile( pcwszDrive,
FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES|SYNCHRONIZE|FILE_TRAVERSE,
FILE_SHARE_READ|FILE_SHARE_WRITE,
NULL, OPEN_EXISTING, 0, NULL );
if( hDisk == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE )
{
hr = HRESULT_FROM_WIN32( GetLastError() );
wprintf( L"CreateFile failed on %s, GLE = 0x%x\n", pcwszDrive, GetLastError() );
goto exit;
}
wprintf( L"succeeded.\n\n" );
wprintf( L"\nPress Any Key to send down the FSCTL\n" );
_getwch();
//
// Send down the FSCTL
//
wprintf( L"Calling DeviceIoControl( FSCTL_QUERY_FILE_SYSTEM_RECOGNITION ) " );
fResult = DeviceIoControl( hDisk,
FSCTL_QUERY_FILE_SYSTEM_RECOGNITION,
NULL,
0,
&FsRi,
sizeof(FsRi),
&BytesReturned,
NULL );
if( !fResult )
{
hr = HRESULT_FROM_WIN32( GetLastError() );
wprintf( L"failed GLE = 0x%x\n", GetLastError() );
goto exit;
}
wprintf( L"succeeded.\n\n" );
wprintf( L"FSCTL_QUERY_FILE_SYSTEM_RECOGNITION returned success.\n" );
wprintf( L"FSCTL_QUERY_FILE_SYSTEM_RECOGNITION retrieved \"%S\".\n",
FsRi.FileSystem );
exit:
if( hDisk != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE )
{
CloseHandle( hDisk );
hDisk = INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE;
}
return hr;
}
Related topics