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Find out what sectors are a file on a hard drive?

How would I go about finding what sectors a file's data is on so i would be able to delete the file via bootable assembly code. Eg: File: C:\system.sys Location: sector 1837,1739,2736 etc Or some ...
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Why can't we understand the content of a binary file after compiled?

As far I know, every program consists of a pack of processor instructions with some specific data variables(float, int, char...) to work on the processor registers. So, the first thing that I ...
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Old Technologies About Floppy

I have a floppy disk with an unknown FS-(FileSystem). I want to make a copy from it but I can't because both Windows and Linux seem to be unable to read from it. I tried many of the most popular apps ...
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Understanding 8086 instruction encoding

I am trying to understand 8086 instruction encoding. Even though I found a general instruction and a bulky reference I still don't get it. Could you please explain me how the following "translations" ...
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How prevalent are old x64 processors lacking the cmpxchg16b instruction?

The cmpxchg16b instruction for doing atomic 128 bit memory exchanges is not supported on old versions of the x64 processor but it seems like this has been supported by newer versions of the processor ...
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how to assign Strong Name to an Assembly?

I have created strong name using - sn -k C:\strong.snk nao how to assign this key to any assembly? and where I have to use gacutil?
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linux and assembly - blocking

does Linux block ports and interrupts for user programs use ?
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IDE for assembly on pendrive

I need a portable IDE for assembly. What can you recommend me ?
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What is the maximum addressible memory?

You may feel this is not a programming question and want to move it to superuser.com but itdoes belong to SO.com I just started learning assembly. My laptop specification says: Microprocessor: ...
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Windows --> Assembly folder typical size: aka GAC

I am a .net developer on a Win 7 RC1 (x64) machine and I happened to notice that my GAC(Global Assembly Cache) folder is 1.2 GBs in size(1700 files). This got me wondering what the "normal" size is ...