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hi

like i m doin a project on data recovery but the problem is whenever i try to read some sector in hard disk absread with the drive no to be 0x80 it gives an error that we cannot access hard disk directly........

but as so many data recovery softwares do exist so there must be some tool which help us solve the problem..........

is anybody aware of it........

plz do reply

thanks

Hi,
You can't access the hard disk *directly* if running in a DOS/Win16 app (through ports) in a NT based kernel, but I think it's possible to use INT 26/27h. If that's blocked too, use Win9x kernel OS (either in yer physical or virtual machine).

You can access the hard drive directly through the Windows API though. You can use the function CreateFile to gain access to a physical disk or to a volume. See CreateFile for more information.