Re: Reading a physical disk in windows as a File

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cygwin creates /dev/fdxx and /dev/hdxx under NT/2K. These devices don't show up under ls but they work using dd. (I have used it to create floppy images)

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Re: Re: Reading a physical disk in windows as a File by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Sep 04, 2002 at 14:44 UTC
It's just a matter of translating /dev/fd01 to \\.\A: and so on.	[reply]

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