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Subject: RE: Writing to '\\.\X:' that has no backing PhysicalDrive?
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Thanks Christian.

exec 4> /proc/sys/DosDevices/E:

works.


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Subject: RE: Writing to '\\.\X:' that has no backing PhysicalDrive?

Ilya Basin via Cygwin wrote:
>> Hi.
>> I was trying to write an .img file to a VeraCrypt drive.
>> VeraCrypt doesn't create a virtual PhysicalDrive so tools like Rufus don't see it.
>> I hoped that with cygwin I would be able to do that, but Cygwin only creates /dev/sd?? nodes for PhysicalDrive partitions.
>> I tried `dd` with '\\.\X:', but it can't open for writing because it treats it as a directory (reading succeeds).
>>
>> $ dd count=1 if='\\.\E:' | xxd
>> 1+0 records in
>> 1+0 records out
>> 512 bytes copied, 0.0213007 s, 24.0 kB/s
>> 00000000: eb52 904e 5446 5320 2020 2000 0208 0000  .R.NTFS    .....
>> ...
>>
>> $ dd if=/dev/null count=0 of='\\.\E:'
>> dd: failed to open '\\.\E:': Is a directory

Could reproduce this. The inconsistency between open for reading vs. writing of '\\.\E:' is actually interesting. Subtle bug in Cygwin?


>>
>> Same error in MSYS2.
>>
>> Does cygwin provide some (hidden) /dev/ nodes for drive letters or volumes like "\\?\Volume{GUID}"? Can I create one with mknod?

Alternatively, VeraCrypt Volumes could be accessed via:

$ ls -l /proc/sys/DosDevices/E:
lr--r--r-- 1 ... /proc/sys/DosDevices/E: -> /proc/sys/Device/VeraCryptVolumeE

But /proc/sys is completely R/O like /proc/registry, so you cannot write the image via this path.

OT:
/proc/sys/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopyN[/PATH/TO/FILE] allows to read the image and individual files from a volume shadow copy.


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