How can I ReadAllByte with unique Volume ID in PowerShell?

Question

I tried this command, it's working fine:

$path = "C:\sometext.txt"
[System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes("$path")

But when I tried to read all bytes of file in PowerShell with unique ID like this code it doesn't work:

$path =  "\\.\Volume{3386ab07-0000-0000-0000-501f00000000}\sometext.txt"
[System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes("$path")

I take unique ID with:

$listdrive = ""
$drivelistuniqueID = Get-Volume 
foreach ($item in $drivelistuniqueID)
{
    $listdrive += $item.UniqueId + "DriveLetterSplIttEr"
}
$listdrive=$listdrive.Replace("?",".")
$listdrive

If I don't replace ? with . PowerShell says:

Exception calling "ReadAllBytes" with "1" argument(s): "Illegal characters in
path."
At line:3 char:1
+ [System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes("$path")
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ArgumentException

Any idea about how I could fix this error? I need only read file with GUID (Unique ID).

Answer 1

actually when you want to read all byte you can do it directly . test this on your computer make new file wile using GUID then try to open file . you will see you can't . if you want to use readallbyte you should hook this.