Re: Accessing the sectors of an harddisk

Ruud wrote:

See CreateFile (WinAPI), in detail the //PhysicalDrive...


The problem is that Windows doesn't see the harddisk as it isn't
formatted in a known format.

Hmm, I wonder how Windows then will be able to format a any HD...

Which Windows version do you use?

DoDi
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