Virtual Drive development

Tech Tip: Click here to run a free scan for Windows Errors and optimize PC performance

From: Alex Webber (alex_webber_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 04/28/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 15:14:17 +0300

Hello to everyone.

I want to develop a virtual drive that will behave similarily with a normal
disk, but to be mounted from a file in the original file system. The format
of the file will be also developed by me.

Can someone give me some directions? What to study, what is the
architechture of such virtual drive? Do I need a new device driver
developed? Do I need a File System Filter Driver? etc.

I mention that I have DDK and IFS ready available as well as MSDN Library
documentation.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Alex

Relevant Pages

  • Re: XP SP2 ntfs.sys question
    ... I suspect that some other 3rd party file system filter driver may be the ... actual culprit and that if you actually looked at the full memory dump ... Microsoft MVP - Windows File System ... > I have abandoned ntfs after I had a ntfs.sys Stop x:024 which resulted in ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: File system filter driver documentation
    ... There are no tutorials on file system filters that I know of. ... Don Burn (MVP, Windows DDK) ... I am new to file system filter driver developement. ...
    (microsoft.public.development.device.drivers)
  • Re: How to use CcInitializeCacheMap() ?
    ... Well normally this is a file system call, not for filters, since you must ... On file system filter driver I'm going to create a cached file first, ... IN PVOID LazyWriteContext); ...
    (microsoft.public.development.device.drivers)
  • Re: File System Driver Develeopment
    ... particular directory") I'm not certain a file system driver is what you're ... It may be that you're trying to develop a file system filter driver. ... driver and extend or replace some functionality provided by the target file ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsce.platbuilder)
  • Virtual Drive development
    ... disk, but to be mounted from a file in the original file system. ... Do I need a File System Filter Driver? ...
    (microsoft.public.development.device.drivers)