Hey Monks!

A 200 gigs hd went crazy on me, and it just has a RAW partiton now. I've managed to extract much data from it, but as you all know, text is another story as it doesnt have unique hex as other formats have...

So, I was thinking...
Hex editor that support disk access.. -> HxD!
Hmm, timeconsuming...
Regular expressions powerfull... Perl! Now I only need some way to access the hd in "raw", and then I'm able to "extract" the text from the screwed up hd.
This is were you monks come in!
Ideas?
Couldn't find a module for access hd raw! (And Im using Windows)

This may also be something for some application out there, but I dont think there is something like HxD with regular expression and batch support! Actually, doing this in Perl would be fonky as hell! Doesnt really seem I can link Perl with HxD either...

UPDATE: The RAW partition is its own unit letter.. (P: in this case :) )

Thanks,
Ace

In reply to Accessing a RAW partition! by Ace128

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