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JAVA any good?? for programs need low level access to HDD??
im not 100% sure how alternative datastream works, it exists on all NTFS, and is there to provide compatibility to with Mac file system. The system uses data forks to store the actually content, and resource forks to store attribute. On windows system, alternative datastream is hidden, and... -
JAVA any good?? for programs need low level access to HDD??
what about reading a sector from one drive and write it to another drive?? basically im trying to write some sort of clonning program with additional tools to look at the drive's content (or the image cloned), therefore i will need a exact copy of the hard drive regardless of the file system... -
JAVA any good?? for programs need low level access to HDD??
Hi, Im in a process of building a program for an programing assignment, which requires to have low level access to HDD. I need my program to do the following: -Read the hard drive bit by bit -Acess boot sector to read information -Read what's in the file header -Read the file metafiles -Read...
