How Do I extract the pure text from sectors in a hard drive.

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Hello people from codeproject.

I want to perform a software with the following capabilities, hope you can help me with it:

1) Read the information storaged in sectors.
2) Add a "search text" button in order to find the specific text that I want to retreive/recover

3) Visualize the text once this has been found.

4) Gice the software the feature for looking into the different hard drived connected, I mean, like a recovery tree.

This entire features are possible using the Winhex editor and so on, but I want to create my own.

Any suggestions?, thanks for reading, my best regards.
Michael

Posted 21-Nov-15 16:32pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-21T17:13:00

Solution 1

This is done using regular Windows API CreateFile:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa363858%28v=vs.85%29.aspx[^].

Only you need to use appropriate string for a file name representing the disk, "\\.\PhysicalDriveX". See the explanations at the end of this MSDN article.

Note that all such operations will require elevation of privileges.

—SA

Posted 21-Nov-15 17:13pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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[no name] 21-Nov-15 23:53pm

A 5 for a short and descriptive answer (short answer usually != "—SA" Answer)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 21-Nov-15 23:57pm

Thank you.
—SA