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  Win32 Write RAW Physical Disk Python 3.3.2 khanta <khanta@gmail.com> - 2014-02-19 07:42 -0500
    Re: Win32 Write RAW Physical Disk Python 3.3.2 khanta@gmail.com - 2014-02-21 13:32 -0800
      Re: Win32 Write RAW Physical Disk Python 3.3.2 Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-21 21:42 +0000

#66688 — Win32 Write RAW Physical Disk Python 3.3.2

Hello,
 I am trying to write to the raw physical disk on Windows 8.1 but I
get an error:
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '\\\\.\\PHYSICALDRIVE2\\\\'

OS: Windows 8.1
Python: 3.3.2
Drive is a USB drive
Running as administrator

Code Snippet:

       with open(r"\\.\PHYSICALDRIVE2\\", "rb+") as f:  #Writing Binary!
            f.seek(unallocatedoffset + 0)
            f.write(t1)


or

        with open('\\\\.\\PHYSICALDRIVE2\\', "rb+") as f:  #Writing Binary!
            f.seek(unallocatedoffset + 0)
            f.write(t1)

or

f = os.fdopen(os.open('\\\\.\\PHYSICALDRIVE2\\' os.O_CREAT |
os.O_WRONLY | os.O_APPEND | os.O_EXCL))


Any suggestions?  Is it possible?

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#66851

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,
> 
>  I am trying to write to the raw physical disk on Windows 8.1 but I
> 
> get an error:
> 
> PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '\\\\.\\PHYSICALDRIVE2\\\\'
> 
> 
> 
> OS: Windows 8.1
> 
> Python: 3.3.2
> 
> Drive is a USB drive
> 
> Running as administrator
> 
> 
> 
> Code Snippet:
> 
> 
> 
>        with open(r"\\.\PHYSICALDRIVE2\\", "rb+") as f:  #Writing Binary!
> 
>             f.seek(unallocatedoffset + 0)
> 
>             f.write(t1)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> or
> 
> 
> 
>         with open('\\\\.\\PHYSICALDRIVE2\\', "rb+") as f:  #Writing Binary!
> 
>             f.seek(unallocatedoffset + 0)
> 
>             f.write(t1)
> 
> 
> 
> or
> 
> 
> 
> f = os.fdopen(os.open('\\\\.\\PHYSICALDRIVE2\\' os.O_CREAT |
> 
> os.O_WRONLY | os.O_APPEND | os.O_EXCL))
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Any suggestions?  Is it possible?

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#66853

On 21/02/2014 21:32, khanta@gmail.com wrote:
> 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?
>

Sorry I can't help you, but you're more likely to get answers if you 
didn't top post and you use a decent email client or follow the 
instructions here https://wiki.python.org/moin/GoogleGroupsPython to 
prevent us seeing double line spacing.

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