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FSCTL_GET_BOOT_AREA_INFO IOCTL (winioctl.h)

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Retrieves the locations of boot sectors for a volume.

To perform this operation, call the DeviceIoControl function with the following parameters.

BOOL DeviceIoControl(
  (HANDLE) hDevice,              // handle to volume
  FSCTL_GET_BOOT_AREA_INFO,      // dwIoControlCode
  NULL,                          // input buffer
  0,                             // size of input buffer
  (LPVOID) lpOutBuffer,          // output buffer
  (DWORD) nOutBufferSize,        // size of output buffer
  (LPDWORD) lpBytesReturned,     // number of bytes returned
  (LPOVERLAPPED) lpOverlapped    // OVERLAPPED structure
);

Remarks

In Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, this code is supported by the following technologies.

Technology Supported
Server Message Block (SMB) 3.0 protocol No
SMB 3.0 Transparent Failover (TFO) No
SMB 3.0 with Scale-out File Shares (SO) No
Cluster Shared Volume File System (CsvFS) Yes

Requirements

Requirement Value
Minimum supported client Windows 7 [desktop apps only]
Minimum supported server Windows Server 2008 R2 [desktop apps only]
Header winioctl.h (include Windows.h)

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