Reading physical drive

[Afrow UK]

Originally Posted by simplix

I'm trying read drive on WinXP, but function must work on any system. I think this KB does not matter, because there is considered newer systems. In addition exists utilities that successfully read and write drive on any system, but don't have all needed functions, which can be implemented independently.


This is for the treatment of drives from viruses in MBR and similar work. Now I use a third-party utility, but its capabilities are not always enough and want the flexibility to manage data.

The article was written before 7 and above was available but will likely apply to those operating systems too unless otherwise specified (everything I have found on Google suggests this is the case).

In order to access a disk directly on Vista and above it looks like you will need to be running as LOCAL SYSTEM, e.g. as a Windows service (or you can use PsExec).

Stu