First, here are a couple links i looked at...
Read and write hard disk sector directly and efficiently
Read specific sector on hard drive using C language on windows
I'm trying to do almost the same thing. What I'm having trouble with is reading the device multiple times so I can store the read bytes from a DEVICE (USB) to writing them into a FILE.
This is what I am trying to do...
- declare variables
- initialize variables
- SetFilePointer()
- ReadFile()
- output the read bytes to a file
- use ReadFile() to get more bytes
- output the read bytes to same file again
- repeat 6 and 7 (actually just repeating 4 and 5)
This doesn't seem to be working. I would like to read x amount of bytes and store those values into a file then read more and store those values in the same file as last time. I would like it to repeat the process until it reads to the end of the device. I would like this program to work on any size of device. If I can put it in a loop then I can read and write infinite sized devices.
This is a how to read/write so I would like to do this in reverse as well. Read the file for values then write them to the device.
I'm using a 128MB USB. It contains 131858432 bytes. If any more info is needed then I will post it if I have it.
My code:
#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char ** argv)
{
BYTE sector[0x400] = {0};
DWORD bytesRead;
HANDLE device = NULL;
int numSector = 1;
int maxRead = 1;
FILE *readChar = fopen("G:\\usb_128MB_Dec2.txt", "w+");
device = CreateFile("\\\\.\\L:", // Drive to open
GENERIC_READ|GENERIC_WRITE, // Access mode
FILE_SHARE_READ|FILE_SHARE_WRITE, // Share Mode
NULL, // Security Descriptor
OPEN_EXISTING, // How to create
0, // File attributes
NULL); // Handle to template
if(device == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
{
printf("CreateFile: %u\n", GetLastError());
system("pause");
return 1;
}
// set the file pointer for first time
SetFilePointer(device, numSector, NULL, FILE_BEGIN);
// Edit 1. Comment 2.
if(GetLastError() != NO_ERROR)
{
printf("GetLastError: %d\n", GetLastError());
goto end; // end: is before closing files or handles at end of main()
}
// read device for maxRead number of bytes and store the reading into a file
ReadFile(device, sector, maxRead, &bytesRead, NULL);
fprintf(readChar, "%d\n", sector[0]);
// This part of code does not act like expected
SetFilePointer(device, numSector, NULL, FILE_CURRENT);
if(!ReadFile(device, sector, maxRead, &bytesRead, NULL))
printf("err\n");
else
fprintf(readChar, "%d", sector[0]);
end: // Edit 1. Comment 2.
CloseHandle(device);
fclose(readChar);
system("pause");
return 0;
}
Screen ouput:
GetLastError: 87
File output:
Nothing is in the file.
The file should contain an 8 bit decimal value instead of nothing or a 0.
Edit 1:
87 means INVALID PARAMETER.
Your reads have to be sector aligned so you can't seek to offset 1, but only 0, sector_size, 2sector_size, ..., nsector_size, Your reads have also be in multiplies of sector size, and your memory buffer has to be aligned to sector_size.
Sector size could be retrieved with GetDiskFreeSpace and aligned memory can be obtained with VirtualAlloc.
Maybe you should check also FSCTL_LOCK_VOLUME and FSCTL_DISMOUNT_VOLUME.
Here's the other code that works for one time reading of the device
#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char ** argv)
{
BYTE sector[0x200] = {0};
DWORD bytesRead;
HANDLE device = NULL;
int numSector = 1;
int maxRead = 0x200;
long long int i;
FILE *readChar = fopen("G:\\usb_128MB_Dec.txt", "w+");
device = CreateFile("\\\\.\\L:", // Drive to open
GENERIC_READ|GENERIC_WRITE, // Access mode
FILE_SHARE_READ|FILE_SHARE_WRITE, // Share Mode
NULL, // Security Descriptor
OPEN_EXISTING, // How to create
0, // File attributes
NULL); // Handle to template
if(device == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
{
printf("CreateFile: %u\n", GetLastError());
system("pause");
return 1;
}
SetFilePointer(device, numSector, NULL, FILE_BEGIN);
if (!ReadFile(device, sector, maxRead, &bytesRead, NULL))
{
printf("ReadFile: %u\n", GetLastError());
goto end;
}
else
{
printf("Success!\n");
}
if(readChar == NULL)
{
printf("Did not open file. Exit 2.");
goto end;
}
for(i = 0; i < maxRead - 1; i++)
{
fprintf(readChar, "%d\n", sector[i]);
}
fprintf(readChar, "%d", sector[i]); // so the previous loop wont add \n to the last read wanted
end:
CloseHandle(device);
fclose(readChar);
system("pause");
return 0;
}
File contents:
235
88
...
Each byte read is stored in decimal value on a new line.
So it may be better understood what I'm trying to do, here it is in code:
// What I want to do..
// This part works
SetFilePointer(device, numSector, NULL, FILE_BEGIN);
ReadFile(device, sector, maxRead, &bytesRead, NULL);
for(i = 0; i < size_of_device - 0x200; i += 512)
{
for(j = 0; j < maxRead; j++)
{
fprintf(readChar, "%d\n", sector[j]);
}
// stops working
SetFilePointer(device, numSector, NULL, FILE_CURRENT);
ReadFile(device, sector, maxRead, &bytesRead, NULL);
}
for(j = 0; j < maxRead - 1; j++)
{
fprintf(readChar, "%d\n", sector[j]);
}
fprintf(readChar, "%d", sector[j]);
// .. end of what i want to do
Edit 2: Working on reading multiple times now.
#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char ** argv)
{
BYTE sector[0x200] = {0};
DWORD bytesRead;
HANDLE device = NULL;
//int numSector = 512; // original value was 1 not 512 but variable is not needed
int maxRead = 512;
int i, j, k = 0, l; // loop variables
FILE *readChar = fopen("G:\\wii u hdd image\\usb_128MB_Dec3.txt", "w+");
if(readChar == NULL)
{
printf("Error creating file.\n");
goto end;
}
device = CreateFile("\\\\.\\L:", // Drive to open
GENERIC_READ|GENERIC_WRITE, // Access mode
FILE_SHARE_READ|FILE_SHARE_WRITE, // Share Mode
NULL, // Security Descriptor
OPEN_EXISTING, // How to create
0, // File attributes
NULL); // Handle to template
// If device does not contain a handle value
if(device == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
{
printf("Error. GetLastError: %u\n", GetLastError());
goto end;
}
for(i = 0; i < maxRead*503; i++) // maxRead * 503 = 257536
{
// If ReadFile() fails it will exit the program without adding a '\n' to the readChar file.
if(!ReadFile(device, sector, maxRead, &bytesRead, NULL))
{
printf("Error of ReadFile(). GetLastError(): %u\n", GetLastError());
goto end;
}
// If this is the first time through the loop then '\n' won't be added to the readChar file.
if(i != 0)
{
fprintf(readChar, "\n");
system("cls");
printf("%.2f%%\n", (i / 257536));
}
// Runs for 511 times. Then prints the 512th decimal value after the loop.
for(j = 0; j < maxRead - 1; j++)
{
fprintf(readChar, "%d\n", sector[j]);
}
fprintf(readChar, "%d", sector[j]);
}
end:
CloseHandle(device);
fclose(readChar);
system("pause");
return 0;
}
Edit 3:
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