Assembly interrupt problem: int 13h (ah = 42h) failed returning cf = 1, ah = 1

I want to write a program in assembly language to read primary partitions of a hard disk. I Googled a lot last several days and I found that maybe int 13h (ah = 42h) is for me. But I failed at the beginning. After INT 13H was called, CF was set to 1 and AH was 1. From the docs I know the interrupt was failed.

Here is my code:

ASSUME CS:CodeSeg, DS:DataSeg, SS:StackSeg

DataSeg SEGMENT

BSBuffer:             ; Abbr for Boot Sector Buffer.
MBRecord:             ; Master Boot Record.
    MBR DB 446 DUP (0)

PartitionA:
    StatusA      DB 0 ;
    BeginHeadA   DB 0 ;
    BeginSeclynA DW 0 ;
    FileSystemA  DB 0 ;
    FinalHeadA   DB 0 ;
    FinalSeclynA DW 0 ;
    BeginSectorA DD 0 ;
    SectorCountA DD 0 ;

PartitionB:
    StatusB      DB 0 ;
    BeginHeadB   DB 0 ;
    BeginSeclynB DW 0 ;
    FileSystemB  DB 0 ;
    FinalHeadB   DB 0 ;
    FinalSeclynB DW 0 ;
    BeginSectorB DD 0 ;
    SectorCountB DD 0 ;

PartitionC:
    StatusC      DB 0 ;
    BeginHeadC   DB 0 ;
    BeginSeclynC DW 0 ;
    FileSystemC  DB 0 ;
    FinalHeadC   DB 0 ;
    FinalSeclynC DW 0 ;
    BeginSectorC DD 0 ;
    SectorCountC DD 0 ;

PartitionD:
    StatusD      DB 0 ;
    BeginHeadD   DB 0 ;
    BeginSeclynD DW 0 ;
    FileSystemD  DB 0 ;
    FinalHeadD   DB 0 ;
    FinalSeclynD DW 0 ;
    BeginSectorD DD 0 ;
    SectorCountD DD 0 ;

Validation:
    VALID DW 0 ; Should be 55AAH.

; DAPacket is used as the input parameter of ReadBootSector PROC

DAPacket:                ; Abbr for Disk Address Packet.
    PacketSize    DB 16  ; Always 16.
    Reserved      DB 0   ; Reserved.
    SectorCount   DW 1   ; Should be 1 to read boot sector.
    BufferOffset  DW 0
    BufferSegment DW 0
    BlockNumber DB 8 DUP (0)

DataSeg ENDS

StackSeg SEGMENT
    DB 4096 DUP (0)
StackSeg ENDS

CodeSeg SEGMENT
START:

    MOV AX, DataSeg
    MOV DS, AX
    MOV AX, StackSeg
    MOV SS, AX
    MOV SP, 4096

    MOV DL, 80H
    CALL ReadDisk

    MOV CX, VALID

    MOV AX, 4C00H
    INT 21H

; This process is used to read the boot sector of a given disk.
; Input:
;     DL - Disk ID, 0~79H for floppies, 80H~开发者_高级运维FFH for hds.
; Output:
;     BSBuffer - Boot sector of the disk indicated by DL.

ReadDisk:

    PUSH AX
    PUSH SI
    MOV SI, DAPacket
    MOV PacketSize, 16
    MOV SectorCount, 1
    MOV BufferOffset, BSBuffer
    MOV BufferSegment, DataSeg

    MOV AH, 42H

    INT 13H

    POP SI
    POP AX

    RET

CodeSeg ENDS
END START

Thanks!

You used two functions who're not part of the same API.

int 13h - ah:42h => This is a BIOS function (IBM/MS Read disk extention)

int 21h - ah:4Ch => This is a DOS function (end of process method)

This program can't run anywhere !

Edit : That's false. You're right @ninjalj, I didn't know. It's work on DOS. My bad. Thanks for the correction.

If you code for WinXP, use assembly have realy poor interest. Use C and inline assembly if you want for critical sections. Sadly I don't know how to read on the physical drive using Win32API, but I've already seen it somwhere, so I'm guesing it's possible...

A sector is 512 (0x200) bytes and if you want to write it to de datasegment you have to make a block of at least 512 bytes long. Otherwise you will overwrite the CODE/DATA you try to execute.