Is there any way to implement a complete Volume Encryption technique using c++?

So I have been trying to develop a Volume Encryption utility for Windows. I searched throughout the internet for a starting point but can't really figure out from where I should start. A fellow developer suggested me that the way we can achieve something like that is by tracking IO requests to the volume and then encrypting the IO requests before they reach the hard-disk and at the same time decrypting the IO requests when they are being read provided that the passphrase has been supplied to the utility. I still have no clue whether this approach would work and if it does from where should I start learning more about it so that I could implement it.