Reading from a particular location of the disk
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Hi ! How to read the data from a particular location of the disk. (i.e., like reading physically from 10 th clustor of 2nd sector). Even hint would be helpful. Thanks... John
Windows makes this tough to do. If you are up to writing a device driver, I think the bios INT 13h Extended Read (42h) will do it. This is buried in the DDK docs under 'Design and implementation guide' | Interrupt 13h Extension APIs' | 'Reference' in the MSDN. I doubt you can do this kind of thing through DeviceIoControl. If its possible, it would be NT only I think. Just passing on the hints (confusion?) I've managed to scrounge so far... DOS was so cool... :)