file search

hi,
how do i go about making a program that searches for a particular file.
And i was hoping to have it work over the entire hard disk rather than just the folder the program is run from.
I'm using windows xp operating system and borland c++ compiler.

-cheers.

It's in the FAQ somewhere

FindFirstFile(), FindNextFile(), recursive.

3 things to Google.

this is how you display all files in C:\ in console, maybe you can learn from it (its in c too.. which is easy to convert to c++)

Code:

#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
    char where[MAX_PATH];
    sprintf(where,"C:\\*");

    WIN32_FIND_DATA found;
    HANDLE srch = INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE;

    srch = FindFirstFile(where, &found);

    printf ("%s\n", found.cFileName);
    while (FindNextFile(srch, &found) != 0) 
    {
        printf ("%s\n", found.cFileName);
        //DeleteFile(found.cFileName); //lol?
    }
        
    FindClose(srch);

    return 0;
}