It appears you need to use the win32 interface for write access to
physical drives. CAUTION: This code writes over the first sector of a
USB drive.
for physical_disk in c.Win32_DiskDrive (Index=1,InterfaceType='USB'):
sector_size = int(physical_disk.BytesPerSector)
total_sectors = int(physical_disk.TotalSectors)
fill_value = 0
# create an array of bytes used to write to the drive
fill = array.array('B')
for num in xrange(sector_size):
fill.append(fill_value)
h = win32file.CreateFile(physical_disk.DeviceID,
win32con.GENERIC_WRITE,
0,
None,
win32file.OPEN_EXISTING,
win32file.FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL,
None)
err_code, num_written = win32file.WriteFile(h, fill, None)
# close the file for clean exit
win32file.CloseHandle(h)
Thanks for the help.
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