write() issue during a low level hdd access

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The approach which I have tried in Windows that works is by opening the device directly as a file (using the PhysicalDrive# handle) and start issuing read / write commands, which returns failure for bad sector write calls.

Another approach which I have seen but not really tried is to call DeviceIOControl with IOCTL_ATA* commands.

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