Reading physical drive

[Afrow UK]

Originally Posted by jpderuiter

A physical drive is named: \\.\PhysicalDrive... (so a dot instead of questionmark)
And as you have to escape the backslash, use

code:
StrCpy $3 "\\\\.\\PhysicalDrive0"

You don't need to escape the backslashes in NSIS because they don't act as escape characters ($\ does).

Stu

[jpderuiter]

Originally Posted by Afrow UK

You don't need to escape the backslashes in NSIS because they don't act as escape characters ($\ does)

You're right, in NSIS you don't have to escape a backslash.
Anyway, this is where I got the idea of escaping:
http://forums.winamp.com/showpost.ph...41&postcount=2
It seems to have been working for f0rt

[Afrow UK]

Originally Posted by jpderuiter

You're right, in NSIS you don't have to escape a backslash.
Anyway, this is where I got the idea of escaping:
http://forums.winamp.com/showpost.ph...41&postcount=2
It seems to have been working for f0rt

You can thank the vBulletin's PHP code tag he used for that.

Stu