DiskSignature

Specifies the disk signature for the Physical Disk resource formatted with a Master Boot Record (MBR) partitioning scheme. The DiskIdType property of the Physical Disk resource has a value of PARTITION_STYLE_MBR (0) for MBR partitioned disks. The following table summarizes the attributes of the DiskSignature property.

Attribute Value
Data type
DWORD
Access
Read/write
Status
Required
Structure
CLUSPROP_DWORD
Minimum
0
Maximum
0xFFFFFFFF
Default
0

Examples

The property value portion of a property list entry for DiskRunChkDsk can be set with the following example code.

DWORD          DiskSignatureData = 0;
CLUSPROP_DWORD DiskSignatureValue;

DiskSignatureValue.Syntax.dw = CLUSPROP_SYNTAX_LIST_VALUE_DWORD;
DiskSignatureValue.cbLength  = sizeof(DWORD);
DiskSignatureValue.dw        = DiskSignatureData;

Requirements

Minimum supported client
None supported
Minimum supported server
Windows Server 2008 Datacenter, Windows Server 2008 Enterprise

See also

Physical Disk Private Properties

CLUSPROP_DWORD

Signature

DiskIdGuid