Recursive hard disk search with FindFirstFile & FindNextFile C++

Question

I am failing to see where i am going wrong. This current code skips straight to closefile. NOt processing any files, i may just be missing something obvious and it has been

Answer 1

Your condition is incorrect, you should compare to to INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE

 if ( hFile != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)

Besides you skip the first matching file returned by FindFirstFile, is that what you want?

Also I believe you need a wildcard c:\\* otherwise it will only match c:\\ itself

hFile = FindFirstFile("C:\\*", &file);