please i want to know a method to directly access hard disk
in win xp and all nt series its very urgent.please.

Urgent things tend to take a longer time to solve than interesting things.

Why so urgent?

Try looking at

revolution: Why so cryptic?

Interesting question, but it does leave one to wonder why it is urgent. Does this help. From what I can tell, it explains a Windows equivalent to Linux's listing of hardware as files.

Because so often the "urgent" things are simply homework help or virus help.

True. Virus making does seem like the most obvious use for direct hardware access. But what could anyone who has to ask really do?

Not that viruses aren't interesting, I'd like to see the source to one, but I'd never use it. The whole "living," reproducing code thing is what interests me.

this board needs a presentation section, only to know who are the new users that need urgent things, without any explication.

we need to know who are thoses users who always come, ask a thing, and never come again.

then, Muhammad ibtisam abdullah, who are you, welcome to the board, what are your interrest, why do you want to use fasm, etc etc...

tyler, if you want to know more about viruses, try to code some...
it is mostly not very hard to create an EXE that will never show itself in the taskbar, apparently do nothing, but use system vulnerability to overwrite some parts of the kernel.

i don't know exactlly how it works under windows or linux (protected mode) but in dos, it is very easy ot make a virus, real mode sucks about that.

I never wrote that.

Maybe there should be a part of the forum, that only long term members can get to.

How long term? Would I be counted as long term?

yep, maybe to avoid this kind of PM:





sorry if i don't respect the "private" goal of this message, but it is to warn others...

You would have had to join at least 5 years, 9 months, and 16 days ago.....



No, but seriously, Dex4u makes a good point. Maybe a subforum where you can only post in it after you have a certain amount of posts, or having been a member for a certain time, or something.

A week and 20 posts should keep any one who's not hell bent on posting in the forum. But what good would it do? They'd just post in another, at least this guy was nice enough to post in the right subforum.

But these kind of fellows are funny, without them this would be a little boring.

The code the guy wants, i have coded such a app in fasm, i sent the code to Smiddy because i know he wants it for the right reasons (eg: he's into OS dev).

But when some unknown person wants such code along with his other post, it is not so good because every time someone users (in this case) the usb program to write there hobby OS to a usb key fobs, we get AV saying its a virus or something.

I for one have nothing against keyloggers binder rats etc, if they are to learn from and not to use on any other persons PC.

So i think a secret subform for only member that have been invited in can see and post, would be good so we can share such code, without it falling into the wrong hands.

That would be a good reason for a restricted subforum, I couldn't really think of a good reason myself as to what could be posted that would need to be restricted.

PS: What did you use in the app, int 13h, 2 or 42h, DMA, or some other int-less method? I'm interested, can you pm me with the code?

Sure i will PM you a link, its a win32 app so it user's the winAPI's

Dex4u: I don't see how you get anything done with so many large comment blocks.
I don't have the patience to do these

I bet DexOS would be the PC version of the Xbox if you hadn't taken time to do those every 10 lines

@Tyler: patience is a key for good coding, those blocks I do two, I do it to increase readability for people reading my code and to break it up, and me being dyslexic it seems to help to have the code broken up into sections even when I am writing.... those blocks dont take long either