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Reading Boot Sector on Windows

I created a little program on python that reads the boot sector at a low level so it will not corrupt the device. I successfully ran this program yesterday in Linux and I got the idea to do the same thing in Windows. But the only problem that came was that I wasn't enabled to read for example:\Device\Harddisk0\Partition1, the boot partition or \Device\Harddisk0\DR0, the raw disk 0. Each time that I try it throws an error: No such a file or a directory

What I am doing wrong?

Solution

  • The Correct Way To Do It Is:

    import os
disk_fd = os.open( r"\\.\PhysicalDrive0", os.O_RDONLY | os.O_BINARY)
data = os.read(disk_fd, 512)
os.close(disk_fd)

    Thanks To @eryksun