Re: [sleuthkit-developers] win32 device opening

[Christophe G. <gr...@cg...>]

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Brian Carrier wrote:

> Hi Christophe,
>
> Thanks, but that didn't seem to change anything on my XP system when trying 
> to open \\.\PhysicalDrive0. I still get a sharing violation.
>
>> So far, it works well under Vista as long as you run TestDisk
>> using right-click "Run as Administrator".
>
> It works on both \\.\C: and \\.\PhysicalDrive0?

Hi Brian,

TestDisk opens both but by default, it won't display C: if
PhysicalDrive0 has worked unless "testdisk /all" is used.
Does TestDisk work on your system ?
Is there another program already accessing \\.\PhysicalDrive0?
It may explain the sharing violation.

 	Christophe
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