Parsing NTFS Partition in C

I'm just a beginner and I have a need to parse a NTFS partition for the purpose of extracting Security Descriptors. (I been trying to use the native functions of the Windows API, but my conclusion is that something is seriously wrong with the functions' behavior, or their documentation.)

I was wondering if anybody here experienced with such requirement, and could give me few hints, references, guidance... where to begin?

(I've found www.ntfs.com, seems to have NTFS structure information, but I'm afraid I开发者_JAVA百科'll need something more to get started...)

My intention is to use it under Windows XP.

Here's some pretty low-level documentation: http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs/files/NTFS%20Documentation/

Also, have you looked at Microsoft's technical reference for NTFS?: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc758691(WS.10).aspx

Otherway to start with linux based open source NTFS projects like linux-ntfs or captive or NTFS-3G . That will give you some idea about NTFS read/write operations