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Yiannis Mpourkelis
Yiannis Mpourkelis

Reputation: 1386

Can CreateFile for read access to a physical drive without admin rights?

I am trying to read some data from the MBR using CreateFile, but I cannot get it to work without admin rights.

The code I am using is like this:

hDevice = CreateFile("\\.\PhysicalDrive0", GENERIC_READ, FILE_SHARE_READ Or FILE_SHARE_WRITE, 0, OPEN_EXISTING, 0, 0)

Is it possible to read data from the MBR without admin rights?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1436

Answers (1)

Billy ONeal
Billy ONeal

Reputation: 106609

No, you cannot access the physical drive directly without administrative privileges. (Specifically, I think you need SeBackupPrivilege) (Consider what you could do if this was allowed, you could circumvent access control lists saying you were not allowed to read a file)

Upvotes: 6

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