Is it possible to get writing access to raw devices using python with windows?

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As eryksun and agf pointed out in the comments (but I didn’t really get it at first), the solution is rather simple: you have to open the device in the rb+ mode, which opens the device for updating (as I have found out now..) without trying to replace it with a new file (which wouldn’t work because the file is in fact a physical drive).

When writing, you have to write always a whole sector at a time (i.e. multiples of 512-byte), otherwise it fails.

In addition, the .seek() command can also jump only sector-wise. If you try to seek a position inside a sector (e.g. position 621), the file object will jump to the beginning of the sector where your requested position is (i.e. to the beginning of the second sector, byte 512).

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