Developing a sector based partition copying program?
- by baltusaj
Hi,
I want to develop a program that copies a partition's 'data' only, to another partition. And I want to do it such that the program starts from the first sector of source partition and checks if a sector is used.
If it is used
copy it to the destination parition.
Else
don't copy.
In other words it's like copying only the contents of a partition to another, sector-by-sector.
Question:
Is there a way to check if a particular sector on harddisk is used or not?
The programming language I am using is C++ and the underlying filesystem in NTFS.
Thanks a lot.