If you create software, that needs direct access to
the files or partitions of your disks (including hard
drives and flash disks), you have probably faced the
restrictions, imposed by Windows XP and Windows Vista
operating systems.

Windows XP prevents your from using raw access to
disks if the application is run under restricted (non-
administrative) account. Windows Vista doesn't allow
you to access the disks from user-mode processes at
all.

Both systems won't let you open the file, if it's
exclusively opened by another application or if
security settings (permissions) don't let you access
the file.

RawDisk effectively solves this problem by providing a
kernel-mode driver for use with your applications.
Using this driver you can read and write the data
from/to the disk or opened files without any

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