well I do not know why he would want to read / write directly to the FAT / NTFS but I would like to tag files with extra infomation, that my compnay would find helpful... so if you know how Ican do this from c# then that would be handy. :)

thanks for that, very interesting... i'll have to see if there is a way of using this from c#

Hi All, I would like to be able to read and write directly to the NTFS and or FAT. Can anyone point me in the correct direction to do this using c#, failing that c++ I wish to append extra information about the files and folders that is specific to my company. many thanks for your help...

so what your saying is you don't know...