> I’m not a big fan of this “no raw write”, I think the pagefile encryption
approach would have been better. But I guess time was running short…
You cannot write to PhysicalDrive%d device object to areas covered by mounted
(or maybe just defined?) partitions. Neither by WriteFile nor by SPTI.
But you can write to, say, \.\d: - to a partition, provided you called
CreateFile properly and have enough user rights. This is how FORMAT, CHKDSK /F,
and image backup restore works.
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Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
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