writing on hard drive sectors

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Feb 9th, 2003, 11:14 AM
mrdj1002

writing on hard drive sectors

Hi guys
Well I wanted to make a “software lock” for my recent app. I have some outlines of it in my mind. I think I should write something on the user’s hard drive so that the user can’t delete or modify it. And I think the only way to do this is to write the information on some sectors of the hard drive not in the form of file or inside of a file like win.ini. Does anybody know how to this? I mean reading/writing on hard drive sectors.
If you have any other comments for developing the lock, I would be so happy if u share your knowledge with me.
Thanks a lot
Feb 9th, 2003, 11:46 AM
mrdj1002

Helloooo? can anybody help?
Feb 9th, 2003, 12:00 PM
radum

you may want to use more intimate windows functions for this, and i would recommend c++ for that. make sure you have a few hard drives formatted and ready-to-go handy, because you may crash the one you use while testing...
Feb 9th, 2003, 12:17 PM
mrdj1002

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Originally posted by radum
you may want to use more intimate windows functions for this, and i would recommend c++ for that. make sure you have a few hard drives formatted and ready-to-go handy, because you may crash the one you use while testing...

really? is it that dangerous?... and i don't know c++?:( that always hurts me. imust take some time to learn it