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Cmake File COPY across drives

The following does not work: cmake file ( copy "C:/pathtofile/file.file" DESTINATION "D:/pathtofile2/file2.file" ) Is there a way to achieve the same thing using cmake?
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Do modern operating systems ignore LBA/CHS information in the MBR boot sector?

I've wiped all the CHS/LBA information and bootcode on a spare flash drive leaving only the bare sector count information: 00000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| 00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00…
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how to use a relative path to switch over to a different drive

A method I am using to import images requires me to use a relative path but the pictures I would like to import are on a different drive. I'm not sure if there is a way for me to access that location using a relative path. If not can someone please…
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how to search media file in our system by c#?

I want to search the media files situated in my system by c#. means I want to create the search engine that will scan all drives (again small question here , how to get the drives on our system by c# code ? )and search the media files like…
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System.IO.DriveInfo.GetDrives() hangs with disconnected network drives

I am writing a file manager in .NET 3.5. At startup, the application must enumerate available drives. I am using DriveInfo.GetDrives to do that. Unfortunately my users lamented that, when they have disconnected network drives, the application took…
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Detecting USB and Floppy Drives' Letters via VBScript

I have a Vb-script which store all removable drives' letters into a variable, As you know it contains both floppy and USB drives, I want to seperate them, I mean I want to store USB Drives' Letters in a variable and Floppy ones into another…
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What are Slack Spaces and How the OS Allocate New File to the Original Sector After Deleting the Old File?

I got it now. File slack can break down into RAM slack and drive slack. And since all data can rarely 100% reach the end of a sector after a file's been saved in sectors or clusters, OS writes RAM data right after that file, and put deleted files or…
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What API to retrieve PC Disk Drive properties?

I need to check disk name and whether the "enable write caching on the device" is enabled or not. so far I tried api method DriveInfo.GetDrives , But it doesn't have any property or methods that can return information I am looking for. …
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Swift, get drive Icon

I was looking for a way to display icons for the mounted drives and also for specific folders. I read all the documentation of NSWorkspace and I found this code but I'm not able to use it to get the icon for a mounted volume. let icon =…
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How to get drive label in Linux using C from userspace

I need to get a label for specific device using c/c++ (and no d-bus) in linux. The problem is that i can't just open device and read it's information (for extN it is very easy to get label from device) because reading from /dev/xxx requires root…
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Display General tab information of property window of local disks in my computer

I need to access the type of disk and display it in the C# code. In this image " Local Disk Image" the type is local disk. In this image "Cluster Disk Image" the type of disk is cluster disk. I have used driveInfo class to get the drive details. but…
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Restrict Drive Letter Selection By Type

I have a form on which a user can select a source drive letter: If FolderBrowserDialog1.ShowDialog() = DialogResult.OK Then TextBox1.Text = FolderBrowserDialog1.SelectedPath End If I need to restrict the selection of drive letters to CDROM or…
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Getting the Physical Device Object for a specific volume id

I want to query different flags of a specific volume. Input should be the volume id, for instance: \\?\Volume{b1a245f3-0000-0000-0000-100000000000}\, then some flags are checked and the output is true/false depending if the desired flags are…
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Deleting Desktop Shortcuts Associated With Network Drives?

I've been working to clean up a messy Active Directory as well as a network file system in the same state and I understand the concept of mapping users network drives and currently use a combination of batch and vbs files to do so. However, I need…
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how can I separate the C:\ drive from all drivers?

I have this program but I have an issue when this try to access the FIRST if... I need to separate the drivers and only get the total size of C:\. When the program stops at the if... say that the drive is not ready. What can I do? class Program { …
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