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From: Mike Brenner <mikeb@mitre.org>
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Subject: Re: Reading raw disks (Windows)
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 08:13:21 -0400
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>> Is there any way to open a raw disk for reading under Windows? 

For FAT formatted disks, you might be able to use the old Alsys DOS Ada Compiler whose runtime library allows you to read and write the sectors of a disk as if the entire disk were a single random access file (which it is).

To do it on the more modern window formats probably requires a Ring 0 Device Driver to do it for you using the Game SDK or its replacement, and then have Ada use the C Interface to call that device driver.