I took the advice from this web page:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q100027/
(I don't know how this extends to floppies, and the 9x family of OSes isn't
listed in "applies to", so this may not help your case)
Here, I open "physical drive 0" and see that the magic number indicates a valid
Googling for keywords like
"direct access sector harddrive Python module Windows"
seems to give no useful results.
Any hints(best if cross-platform)?
Claudio
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