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  1. winapi - How to WriteFile to a PhysicalDrive (Windows 7) without ...

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    CreateFile has support for direct disk access. Read the notes under "Physical Disks and Volumes". You should be able to P/Invoke the call. Note that Vista and Server 2008 have severely restricted this. Agree with Mark's answer.
    In .NET 5, you can use the FileStream to open the disk. \\.\PhysicalDrive1 (as the name suggests) refers to a physical drive. At that level there is no file system. Whatever "file" means to you, the physical drive doesn't understand this.
    However, when I boot the virtual machine, VMWare Player says that it couldn't access the physical drive for writing. This seems to be a generally acknowledged problem in the VMWare community, as Windows Vista introduced a compelling new security feature that makes it impossible to write to a raw drive without obtaining exclusive access to it first.
    After that, I'm able to write to '\.\physicaldriveX' with no problem. I think the Win7 locks (unlike previous Windows releases) the physical device as long as there is any file system on the device to avoid consistency problems. You cannot directly access sectors of a drive which are owned by a mounted filesystem.
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