How to access specific raw data on disk from java

Question

I\'m trying to use the following code to access one byte with offset of 50 bytes in a raw disk.

randomAccessFile = new RandomAccessFile(\"C:\", \"r\");
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Answer 1

Under Linux you can try to open /dev/, e.g. /dev/hda, or /dev/sdb2. This will give you access to a raw disk (or a partition only) but requires that you have appropriate rights—a “normal” user does not have them, though.