Wanted: Python module allowing direct access to raw sectors of harddrives (MFT, boot sector, etc.) in MS Windows

[jepler at unpythonic.net]

I took the advice from this web page:
	http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q100027/
(I don't know how this extends to floppies, and the 9x family of OSes isn't
listed in "applies to", so this may not help your case)

Here, I open "physical drive 0" and see that the magic number indicates a valid
boot record.  I believe it is the MBR.

>>> f = open('\\\\.\\PhysicalDrive0', 'rb')
>>> f.read(512)[-2:]
'U\xaa'   # that is, hex 55 AA

I don't know much about low-level filesystem or partition details--I got the
tidbit about the 55 AA magic number from 
	http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/doc/suse/sles9/adminguide-sles9/ch08.html

Jeff
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