Re: Accessing 'hidden' sectors on hard drives

[Raphael Marmier <raphael@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

And what happens when two programs use "sector 32" for storing their 
copy protection key? ;)

cheers

Raphael

Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
> I was reading recently about a copy protection scheme that stores data in
> sector 32, which is apparently right after the partition info, correct?
>
> The scheme I am looking at claims to defeat Norton Ghost and yet survive a
> format... probably not low-level.  However, they will not reveal the details
> of where the license info is, except to say it is not 'in the filesystem.'
>
> Do these unused, reserved, or 'system' sectors exist on a UFS/FFS hard disk?
> If I am 'dangerously dedicated,' does that extra space go away?  Is there any
> way a copy protection scheme could be devised under FreeBSD that could access
> that area, or another area beyond the reach of the filesystem?
>
> Jonathon McKitrick
> --
> Hoppiness is a good beer.