we are doing a project on data recovery.........and are trying to access the hard disk using c++ code for FAT 32 in windows xp.....but xp prevents any such access.........is there any tool or any way through which we could access the hard disk

: we are doing a project on data recovery.........and are trying to
: access the hard disk using c++ code for FAT 32 in windows xp.....but
: xp prevents any such access.........is there any tool or any way
: through which we could access the hard disk
:
One way is to get a modified WinXP DLL somewhere. This DLL should have all normal options, except that it allows unsafe I/O. I have once _gotten_ a DLL that let me read/write to the COM1 port without XP compaining.

But I have no idea where to get such a modified DLL

See ya,


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