Creating a File System “Driver”

Question

I\'m looking to create a \"driver\" I guess for a custom file system on physical disk for Windows. I don\'t exactly know the best way to explain it, but the device already

Answer 1

The closest thing I know of to what I understand from your description is an installable file system, like the Ext2 installable file system that allows Windows computers to work with Linux originating ext2 (and to a certain degree ext3) filesystems.

Maybe that can serve as a starting point for your investigations.

As an alternative approach there's the Shell extension which is a lot less complicated than the IFS. The now-defunct GMail shell extension used that approach, and even though it's become nonfunctional due to changes in GMail, it can still serve as inspiration.