Format external drive in qt

[rishygupta]

Can i use SHFormatDrive(HWND hwnd,UINT drive,UINT fmtID,UINT options) function in qt if yes then what to pass in HWND as a parent if dialog then how an i pass the value?

if there is another method in qt that format drive from NTFS to FAT32 etc then please let me know...
thanks...

[Rahul Das]

May be you should take a look "here":http://qt-project.org/forums/viewthread/6762

AFAIK, File system issues are OS related.

[sierdzio]

Looks like some ugly WinApi call. Take a look at "link":http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qwidget.html#effectiveWinId this method is going away in Qt5, though, as far as I remember.

[rishygupta]

Actually i need to execute the code in windows and mac platform..

[rishygupta]

any other procedure to do this please le me know..

[andre]

There is no platform independent API in Qt to format drives, as far as I am aware of.

[rishygupta]

what about system(echo | format c: /etc /etc..) is it good? or make any problem?

[andre]

There are many problems with that:

• it is not OS independent
• it might fail and you'd never know it
• there is no way to monitor progress

[rishygupta]

GetDriveType(device_name) is not working in windows xp 32-bit it gives 1-DRIVE_NO_ROOT_DIR for each drive and works fine in wndows 7 ?