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

Java can only access files. Unix has the concept of "raw devices" as files in the /dev directory, so what you want is possible there. But not on windows, because it has no such file representation of the raw HD data.