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 twjolson
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Topic starter 17/09/2010 5:54 am  

This is mostly hypothetical,

Say you want to run mmls against the hard drive in a windows system. What is the naming convention used? I know linux is /dev/?da, but I can't find a similiar way for Windows.

Searches online have returned nothing.


   
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29/09/2010 1:07 am  

I'm not entirely sure, but isn't it something like "\\.\PhysicalDrive0" for the first hard drive and "\\.\PhysicalDrive1" for the next etc? Worth a try anyway.

I'm on a Linux machine at the moment so I can't test this out 😉

Paul

Edit I was just checking this out on the Interweb and this site popped up which contains a reference to some Visual Basic code that uses the same string I mentioned above to poll the hard drives for their geometry. I'm feeling a bit more confident about my suggestion now )


   
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 mscotgrove
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29/09/2010 1:23 am  

I get drive handles with "\\\\.\\PHYSICALDRIVE1" or "\\\\.\\A"

where number letter change for each drive


   
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