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Except that the Microsoft OS doesn't seem to have any normal way to do raw writes to a hard disk.


Define "normal". If you mean that it has no user-visible equivalent to /dev/hd* then I'll agree.

However, the Win32 API supports raw HD reads and writes perfectly well.

On the other hand, I fail to see how this is relevant. If you GET /dev/hda, you'll end up with a file called hda that is an image of the empeg's hard disk. You should be able to PUT /dev/hda later, no?
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