CPP: Windows: DeviceIoControl

An application can use the DeviceIoControl function to perform direct input and output operations on, or retrieve information about, a floppy disk drive, hard disk drive, tape drive, or CD-ROM drive.

The following example demonstrates how to retrieve information about the first physical drive in the system. It uses the CreateFile function to retrieve the device handle to the first physical drive, and then uses DeviceIoControl with the IOCTL_DISK_GET_DRIVE_GEOMETRY control code to fill a DISK_GEOMETRY structure with information about the drive.

Notes:
- Tested using Visual Studio 2022 (17.2.6) C++ Windows Console template
Reference(s):
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/devio/calling-deviceiocontrol

CPP: Windows: GetLogicalDriveStrings

Fills a buffer with strings that specify valid drives in the system.

Notes:
- Tested using Visual Studio 2022 C++ Windows Console template
Reference(s):
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/fileapi/nf-fileapi-getlogicaldrivestringsw

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CPP: Windows: Get logical drives

CPP: Windows: Get logical drives

Retrieves a bitmask representing the currently available disk drives.

Notes:
- Tested using Visual Studio 2022 C++ Windows Console template
Reference(s):
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/fileapi/nf-fileapi-getlogicaldrives