access denied error from WriteFile to physical disk, win7

Question

I am trying to write some data to an SD card from a specific physical sector. I received a code to do this from a company and they say it works ok on windows-xp. This is the sam

Answer 1

I solved this problem several days ago and forgot to check my question here. This is the code I used. We need GENERIC_READ also for block device when creating the file (for partitioned disk). and the key was dismount first and then lock.

u32 HDD_write(u8 drv, u32 SecAddr, u32 blocks, u8 *buf) {
  u32 ret = 0;
  u32 ldistanceLow, ldistanceHigh, dwpointer, bytestoread, numread;
  char cur_drv[100];
  HANDLE g_hDevice;
  DWORD status;

  //sprintf(cur_drv, "\\\\.\\PhysicalDrive%d", drv);
  sprintf(cur_drv, "\\\\.\\%c:",drv);
  g_hDevice = CreateFile(cur_drv, GENERIC_READ | GENERIC_WRITE, FILE_SHARE_READ | FILE_SHARE_WRITE, NULL, OPEN_EXISTING, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, 0);

  if(g_hDevice == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
    return 0;

// dismout and lock added by ckim

  if (!DeviceIoControl(g_hDevice, FSCTL_DISMOUNT_VOLUME,
      NULL, 0, NULL, 0, &status, NULL))
  {
      DWORD err = GetLastError();
      printf("Error %d attempting to dismount volume, error code\n",err);
  }

  // lock volume
  if (!DeviceIoControl(g_hDevice, FSCTL_LOCK_VOLUME,
      NULL, 0, NULL, 0, &status, NULL))
  {
      printf("Error %d attempting to lock device\n", GetLastError());
  }

  ldistanceLow = SecAddr << 9;
  ldistanceHigh = SecAddr >> (32-9);
  dwpointer = SetFilePointer(g_hDevice, ldistanceLow, (long *)&ldistanceHigh, FILE_BEGIN);

  if(dwpointer != 0xFFFFFFFF) {
    bytestoread = blocks * 512;
    ret = WriteFile(g_hDevice, buf, bytestoread, (unsigned long *)&numread, NULL);
    if(ret)   ret = 1;
    else      {
        ret = 0;
        printf("error = %d", GetLastError());
    }
  }

  CloseHandle(g_hDevice);
  return ret;
}