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    partitioning USB Falsh drive

    I have written some code to make two partitions in USB flash drive. When I ran it I am not able to make partitions on usb. What'll be the problem in this code.
    Code:
    /-------------------INITIALIZE AND PARTITION-------------------------------//
    #include "stdafx.h"                                                                  
    #include <Windows.h>                                                            
    #include <stdio.h>                                                                  
    #include <iostream>                                                                
    #include <tchar.h>                                                                
    #include <winioctl.h>                                                            
    #include <shellapi.h>                                                            
    //-------------------------------------Main-------------------------------------//
    int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])                                                                    
    {                                                                                
    	//char *dsk = "\\\\.\\PhysicalDrive1";                                        
    	HANDLE hDisk;                                                                
    	DWORD junk = 0;                                                                
    	BOOL bResult = false;    
    	unsigned int SectorSize = 512;
    //
    	//
    	hDisk = CreateFile(TEXT("\\\\.\\E:"),                            
    		GENERIC_READ | GENERIC_WRITE,                                           
    		FILE_SHARE_READ | FILE_SHARE_WRITE,                                        
    		NULL,                                                                    
    		OPEN_EXISTING,                                                            
    		0,                                                                        
    		NULL);                                                                    
    	//
    	//error handler for driver                                                    
    	if (hDisk == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)                                              
    	{                                                                            
    		CloseHandle(hDisk);                                                        
    		return 1;                                                                
    	}                                                                            
    	//
    	//
    	CREATE_DISK dsk;                                                            
    	dsk.PartitionStyle = PARTITION_STYLE_MBR;                                    
    	dsk.Mbr.Signature = 9999;                                                    
    	//
    	//-------------------------------Initialize Disk--------------------------------//
    	bResult = DeviceIoControl(hDisk,    //initialize raw disk                    
    		IOCTL_DISK_CREATE_DISK,                                                    
    		&dsk, sizeof(dsk),                                                        
    		NULL, 0,                                                                
    		&junk,                                                                    
    		NULL);                                                                    
    	//
    	if (!bResult)                                                                
    	{                                                                            
    		return GetLastError();                                                    
    	}                                                                            
    	//
    	bResult = DeviceIoControl(hDisk,    //to flush changes                        
    		IOCTL_DISK_UPDATE_PROPERTIES,                                            
    		NULL, 0, NULL, 0, &junk, NULL);                                            
    	//
    	if (!bResult)                                                                
    	{                                                                            
    		return GetLastError();                                                    
    	}                                                                            
    	//
    	//
    	//----------------------------Partition Disk--------------------------------//
    	LARGE_INTEGER DiskSize;
    	DiskSize.QuadPart = 15784004812.8;
    		LARGE_INTEGER Part_1_size;
    		Part_1_size.QuadPart = 7892002406.4;
    		LARGE_INTEGER Part_2_size;
    		Part_2_size.QuadPart = 7892002406.4;
    	LARGE_INTEGER lgPartSize;                                                    
    	//
    	lgPartSize.QuadPart = (1024 * 1024 * 1024);                                    
    	//
    	DWORD dwDriverLayoutInfoExLen = sizeof(DRIVE_LAYOUT_INFORMATION_EX) + 3 *    
    		sizeof(PARTITION_INFORMATION_EX);                                        
    	//
    	DRIVE_LAYOUT_INFORMATION_EX *pdg = (DRIVE_LAYOUT_INFORMATION_EX *)new        
    		BYTE[dwDriverLayoutInfoExLen];                                            
    	//
    	if (pdg == NULL)                                                            
    	{                                                                            
    		return -1;                                                                
    	}                                                                            
    	//
    	SecureZeroMemory(pdg, dwDriverLayoutInfoExLen);                                
    	
    
    	//Create the PHTSYS partition
    	pdg->PartitionEntry[0].PartitionStyle = PARTITION_STYLE_MBR;
    	pdg->PartitionEntry[0].StartingOffset.QuadPart = 32768;
    	pdg->PartitionEntry[0].PartitionLength = Part_1_size;
    	pdg->PartitionEntry[0].PartitionNumber = 1;
    	pdg->PartitionEntry[0].RewritePartition = 1;
    	pdg->PartitionEntry[0].Mbr.PartitionType = PARTITION_FAT32;
    	pdg->PartitionEntry[0].Mbr.BootIndicator = TRUE;
    	pdg->PartitionEntry[0].Mbr.RecognizedPartition = 1;
    	pdg->PartitionEntry[0].Mbr.HiddenSectors = (pdg->PartitionEntry[0].StartingOffset.QuadPart - 1) / SectorSize;
    
    	//Create the extended entry for the PHTDATA partition
    	pdg->PartitionEntry[1].PartitionStyle = PARTITION_STYLE_MBR;
    	pdg->PartitionEntry[1].StartingOffset.QuadPart = Part_1_size.QuadPart + pdg->PartitionEntry[0].StartingOffset.QuadPart;
    	pdg->PartitionEntry[1].PartitionLength = Part_2_size;
    	pdg->PartitionEntry[1].PartitionNumber = 2;
    	pdg->PartitionEntry[1].RewritePartition = 1;
    	pdg->PartitionEntry[1].Mbr.PartitionType = PARTITION_EXTENDED;
    	pdg->PartitionEntry[1].Mbr.BootIndicator = 0;
    	pdg->PartitionEntry[1].Mbr.RecognizedPartition = 1;
    	pdg->PartitionEntry[1].Mbr.HiddenSectors = (pdg->PartitionEntry[0].StartingOffset.QuadPart + Part_1_size.QuadPart) / SectorSize;
    
    	//Create the PHTDATA partition
    	pdg->PartitionEntry[4].PartitionStyle = PARTITION_STYLE_MBR;
    
    
    	pdg->PartitionEntry[4].StartingOffset.QuadPart = Part_1_size.QuadPart + pdg->PartitionEntry[0].StartingOffset.QuadPart + SectorSize;
    
    	LARGE_INTEGER LogicalPartition = Part_2_size;
    
    	LogicalPartition.QuadPart = LogicalPartition.QuadPart - SectorSize;
    	pdg->PartitionEntry[4].PartitionNumber = 3;
    	pdg->PartitionEntry[4].RewritePartition = 1;
    	pdg->PartitionEntry[4].Mbr.PartitionType = PARTITION_FAT32;
    	pdg->PartitionEntry[4].Mbr.BootIndicator = 0;
    	pdg->PartitionEntry[4].Mbr.RecognizedPartition = 1;
    	pdg->PartitionEntry[4].Mbr.HiddenSectors = (pdg->PartitionEntry[0].StartingOffset.QuadPart + Part_1_size.QuadPart) / SectorSize;
    	bResult = DeviceIoControl(hDisk,            //device to be queried            
    		IOCTL_DISK_SET_DRIVE_LAYOUT_EX,            //operation to perform            
    		pdg, sizeof DRIVE_LAYOUT_INFORMATION_EX,//sizeof(pdg),                   
    		NULL, 0,                                // output buffer                 
    		&junk,                                    //# bytes returned                 
    		NULL);                                                                   
    	
    	if (!bResult)                                                                
    	{                                                                            
    		return GetLastError();                                                    
    	}                                                                            
    	//
    	//
    	CloseHandle(hDisk);
    	return 0;                                                                                    
    }
    Last edited by sateeshn2507; December 9th, 2014 at 08:12 AM.

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    Re: partitioning USB Falsh drive

    If you mean for a usb memory stick, I refer to post #6 of your previous thread http://forums.codeguru.com/showthrea...t=#post2169443

    What error code are you getting for which function()?
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    Re: partitioning USB Falsh drive

    Thank you for your reply. I want to make partitions using c++ or vc++. for that I wrote that code. And I am not getting any error and also it is not partitioning the USB falsh drive. Actually I am new to both these languages.
    Last edited by sateeshn2507; December 9th, 2014 at 09:11 AM.

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    Re: partitioning USB Falsh drive

    As I already indicated in your other post. Does your flash drive behave as an actual harddisk/SSD or does it behave as a memory stick or as a memory stick (a block device)
    memorysticks can't be partitioned, they can (usually but not necessarily) be formatted. There are memory sticks with an internal file system, these can only store files, and can't be formatted.

    Also... I doubt a USB connected device would be identified as "physicaldisk1"
    you are here opening the (partitioned, formatted and assigned) "disk E:", and are trying to partition that E: drive. This makes no sense at all. Only devices can be partitioned, logical drives cannnot.

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