.NET CF: Format Storage Card?

On May 29, 11:07 am, "Chris Tacke, eMVP" <ctacke.at.opennetcf.dot.com>
wrote:
> 87 == invalid parameter, so something you're sending it it doesn't like. Do
> you have a working example in C? That's where I'd start.
>
> --
>
> Chris Tacke, Embedded MVP
> OpenNETCF Consulting
> Giving back to the embedded communityhttp://community.OpenNETCF.com
>
> "Youraputz" <Yourap....DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:86bc5575-25c8-4501-af2b-053d05056e49@u12g2000prd.googlegroups.com...
>
> >I tried changing the nulls to IntPtr.Zero, and as for the escaped
> > char, sorry, I missed the @ before the string. Checking GetLatError
> > is returning 87.

I just wrote a version in C to remove any of the C# issues that may
exist. I still get 87 when I run this code, but here it is, I've
included wince600\public\common\oak\inc and wince600\public\common\sdk
\inc in the project. I also tried changing "storage card" to "hard
disk" and tried with a usb drive, same error 87.

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

void main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
HANDLE hDevice;
BOOL bResult;
DWORD junk;

hDevice = CreateFile(TEXT("\\Storage Card\\Vol:"), 0, FILE_SHARE_READ
| FILE_SHARE_WRITE, NULL, OPEN_EXISTING, 0, NULL);

if (hDevice == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
{
printf("Invalid Handle\n");
return;
}

bResult = DeviceIoControl(hDevice,IOCTL_DISK_FORMAT_VOLUME, NULL, 0,
NULL, 0, &junk, (LPOVERLAPPED)NULL);

if (bResult == false)
{
printf("Last Error: %d\n", GetLastError());
}

CloseHandle(hDevice);
return;

}

Actually I just found this post, which claims the IOCTL I'm trying to
use has been removed in 6.0.

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsce.platbuilder/...wse_thr

On Jun 3, 9:30 am, "Chris Tacke, eMVP" <ctacke.at.opennetcf.dot.com>
wrote:
> I'm 99% certain that the "VOL:" text in the name is case sensitive and
> *must* be all upper case (thank Paul Tobey for his pain last week in finding
> that during an unrelated issue).
>
> --
>
> Chris Tacke, Embedded MVP
> OpenNETCF Consulting
> Giving back to the embedded communityhttp://community.OpenNETCF.com
>
> "Youraputz" <Yourap....RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:d7d191aa-1bde-4151-9c7f-2d9c18f2520d@w34g2000prm.googlegroups.com...
>
> > On May 29, 11:07 am, "Chris Tacke, eMVP" <ctacke.at.opennetcf.dot.com>
> > wrote:
> >> 87 == invalid parameter, so something you're sending it it doesn't like.
> >> Do
> >> you have a working example in C? That's where I'd start.
>
> >> --
>
> >> Chris Tacke, Embedded MVP
> >> OpenNETCF Consulting
> >> Giving back to the embedded communityhttp://community.OpenNETCF.com
>
> >> "Youraputz" <Yourap....RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> >>news:86bc5575-25c8-4501-af2b-053d05056e49@u12g2000prd.googlegroups.com...
>
> >> >I tried changing the nulls to IntPtr.Zero, and as for the escaped
> >> > char, sorry, I missed the @ before the string. Checking GetLatError
> >> > is returning 87.
>
> > I just wrote a version in C to remove any of the C# issues that may
> > exist. I still get 87 when I run this code, but here it is, I've
> > included wince600\public\common\oak\inc and wince600\public\common\sdk
> > \inc in the project. I also tried changing "storage card" to "hard
> > disk" and tried with a usb drive, same error 87.
>
> > #include <windows.h>
> > #include <diskio.h>
> > #include <winioctl.h>
> > #include <stdio.h>
>
> > void main(int argc, char *argv[])
> > {
> > HANDLE hDevice;
> > BOOL bResult;
> > DWORD junk;
>
> > hDevice = CreateFile(TEXT("\\Storage Card\\Vol:"), 0, FILE_SHARE_READ
> > | FILE_SHARE_WRITE, NULL, OPEN_EXISTING, 0, NULL);
>
> > if (hDevice == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
> > {
> > printf("Invalid Handle\n");
> > return;
> > }
>
> > bResult = DeviceIoControl(hDevice,IOCTL_DISK_FORMAT_VOLUME, NULL, 0,
> > NULL, 0, &junk, (LPOVERLAPPED)NULL);
>
> > if (bResult == false)
> > {
> > printf("Last Error: %d\n", GetLastError());
> > }
>
> > CloseHandle(hDevice);
> > return;
>
> > }