Re: [smartmontools-support]HD failure not detected.

[Christian F. <Chr...@t-...>]

Thane Sherrington (S) wrote:
> How would I write to the unreadable sectors in Windows?

Bruce Allen wrote:
> PS: one possibility -- install cygwin on your Win32 box, then use 'dd' 
> from cygwin.

Yes, this should work.
Cygwin maps device names /dev/sd[a...] to \.\\PhysicalDrive[0...]

There are also several native windows versions of dd:
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
http://users.erols.com/gmgarner/forensics/
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite/dd.htm

But I have no experience with any of these.
Note that most tools do not support physical device access on 9x/ME.

Christian