DeleteNtmsMedia Function

Article
06/09/2011

[Removable Storage Manager is no longer available as of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.]

The DeleteNtmsMedia function deletes a physical piece of offline media from RSM by removing all references to the specified media from the database.

Syntax

DWORD DeleteNtmsMedia(
  __in  HANDLE hSession,
  __in  LPNTMS_GUID lpMediaId
);

Parameters

hSession [in]
Handle to the session returned by the OpenNtmsSession function.
lpMediaId [in]
Unique identifier of a piece of physical media.

Return Value

This function returns one of the following values.

Value	Meaning
ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED	NTMS_MODIFY_ACCESS to the computer or the media's media pool is denied. Other security errors are also possible, but they would indicate a security subsystem error. Windows XP/2000: NTMS_MODIFY_ACCESS to the media's media pool is denied. Other security errors are also possible, but they would indicate a security subsystem error.
ERROR_DATABASE_FAILURE	The database is inaccessible or damaged.
ERROR_DATABASE_FULL	The database is full.
ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE	The session handle is missing or is not valid.
ERROR_INVALID_MEDIA	The media identifier is not valid.
ERROR_INVALID_MEDIA_POOL	The media pool for the media is not valid.
ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER	The media identifier is missing.
ERROR_INVALID_STATE	The media is not offline.
ERROR_NOT_ENOUGH_MEMORY	An allocation failure occurred during processing.
ERROR_SUCCESS	The function was successful.

Remarks

Media specified by the DeleteNtmsMedia function must be located in an offline library and not have a side in the Allocated, Completed, or Reserved states.

You can use DeleteNtmsMedia to remove lost or destroyed media.

Requirements

Minimum supported client	Windows 2000 Professional
Minimum supported server	Windows 2000 Server
End of client support	Windows Vista
End of server support	Windows Server 2008
Header	Ntmsapi.h
Library	Ntmsapi.lib
DLL	Ntmsapi.dll