Can anyone tell me if it is not possible? It would save me a lot of time.
Has anyone ever written to the raw disk on windows?
On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 7:42:02 AM UTC-5, khanta wrote:
> Hello,
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> I am trying to write to the raw physical disk on Windows 8.1 but I
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> get an error:
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> PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '\\\\.\\PHYSICALDRIVE2\\\\'
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>
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> OS: Windows 8.1
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> Python: 3.3.2
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> Drive is a USB drive
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> Running as administrator
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>
> Code Snippet:
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>
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> with open(r"\\.\PHYSICALDRIVE2\\", "rb+") as f: #Writing Binary!
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> f.seek(unallocatedoffset + 0)
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> f.write(t1)
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>
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>
>
> or
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>
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> with open('\\\\.\\PHYSICALDRIVE2\\', "rb+") as f: #Writing Binary!
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> f.seek(unallocatedoffset + 0)
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> f.write(t1)
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>
>
> or
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>
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> f = os.fdopen(os.open('\\\\.\\PHYSICALDRIVE2\\' os.O_CREAT |
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> os.O_WRONLY | os.O_APPEND | os.O_EXCL))
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> Any suggestions? Is it possible?
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