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Subject:	accessing a raw partition
From:	Greg Freemyer <freemyer-ml AT NorcrossGroup DOT com>
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Date:	Fri, 06 Feb 2004 17:52:51 -0500

I have used cygwin and dd to access a raw  physical drive before.

$ mount -f -b //./physicaldrive2 /dev/tmp_name

$ dd if=/dev/tmp_name ....



Is there a way to access a raw partition?

Thanks
Greg
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Greg Freemyer




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