A method and system for accessing audiovisual data in a computer, which
has a hard disk, a hard disk controller and a device driver. The hard
disk is divided into a partition region and a non-partition region. The
partition region has an audiovisual table to record a location of the
audiovisual data stored in the non-partition region. The non-partition
region is emulated as an emulated compact disk drive. When the device
driver determines to access the emulated compact disk drive, it performs
a converting procedure to convert an access instruction to the compact
disk drive into an access instruction to the non-partition region, and
sets a command register of the hard disk controller in accordance with
the instruction converted and the audiovisual table, thereby accessing
the non-partition region.