Win32 API P-Invoke to bring a disk online, offline, and set unique ID

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Published on 2010-05-25T15:10:07Z Indexed on 2010/05/25 15:11 UTC
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I am currently using Diskpart to accomplish these functions, but i would like to be able to use P-Invoke and not have to shell out to an external process in my C# app.

The example Diskpart scripts are:

//Online a disk
Select disk 7
disk online

// Reset GPT Identifier
select disk 7
UNIQUEID DISK ID=baf784e7-6bbd-4cfb-aaac-e86c96e166ee

I tried searching pinvoke.net but could only find functions that dealt with volumes, not disks. Any idea on how to accomplish these diskpart commands using Pinvoke?

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