Raw Drive access from a Python program

I am in the process of recovering files off a Creative Nomad Zen MP3 Player and have a Python program to do this. https://gist.github.com/816115 The above program however is designed to run under Linux. The hard drive of which I have put into USB drive is formatted in a proprietory way, by Creative, thus windows wants to "initialize" it before assigning a drive letter. Obviously this...