C++ direct access to drives

Hi,

I am just playing around with encryptions, message hiding etc, and now I am looking into direct access to CD / DVD drives under windows.

My question is - how do you read * e n t i r e * disc?
I mean together with it's TOC and contents regardless of files and folders - all content of disk as one big string.

So - the idea is - we don't create an ordinary DVD/CD. We write data all over it and when you put it in the drive - windows will see it as a disc with damaged / unusable TOC, but then the program just scans the entire disc and gets everything written on it.

I would appreciate any ideas / suggestions/ URLs / recommendations for this.


Drazen

So this program that reads the munged CD/DVD that Windows can't is included on a floppy disk? :rolleyes:

I can tell you straightaway it would require the use of ASPI, but I've never done it myself.

You may be able to use CreateFile. More info here and here.

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Originally Posted by SMurf

So this program that reads the munged CD/DVD that Windows can't is included on a floppy disk? :rolleyes:

I can tell you straightaway it would require the use of ASPI, but I've never done it myself.

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Nope - you install the program and then you can read the disks. :rolleyes: :)


anonytmouse - Thanks for the info. I was already thinking that I'd have to write something like the CreateFile() API myself. I was hoping that something like that already exists :)


vote anonytmouse for president :)