Increase the size of an .exe file - Page 2

dilli-theclaw · 20-05-2005, 09:05

What is it that you want the nocd for?

McGraw · 20-05-2005, 09:12

Basically, I have nearly ÃƒÆ’Ã†â€™ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…Â¡ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£300 worth of MS Flight Sim software. One of the addons stops my nocd working.

I actually think the hassle of padding the exe file will not be worth it.

dilli-theclaw · 20-05-2005, 09:15

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Originally Posted by McGraw

Basically, I have nearly ÃƒÆ’Ã†â€™ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…Â¡ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£300 worth of MS Flight Sim software. One of the addons stops my nocd working.

I actually think the hassle of padding the exe file will not be worth it.

I have nocd cracks for all my games (that need the cd/dvd) but mainly because I can't be bothered to take the discs with me when I go to work.

I don't have any flight sim games tho - sorry....

p.s. I'm presuming that you've looked on game copy world . com

McGraw · 20-05-2005, 09:17

Yes, I have nocds for all my other games too.

The problem is, this addon expects the .exe file to be a certain size and of course nocds are always different sizes.

punky · 20-05-2005, 11:05

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Originally Posted by McGraw

Yes, I have nocds for all my other games too.

The problem is, this addon expects the .exe file to be a certain size and of course nocds are always different sizes.

You should have kept a copy of the original exe before you brought in the nocd version.

You have to be careful though. This addon could directly write to the exe, which is why it is checking the filesize. If the exe is differently sized due to the nocd patch, and you trick it, it could write to it anyway, corrupting it.

McGraw · 20-05-2005, 11:08

It's ok, I have an original exe and have now decided to just leave the disc in the drive.

bopdude · 20-05-2005, 12:41

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Originally Posted by McGraw

It's ok, I have an original exe and have now decided to just leave the disc in the drive.

I don't know if this is possible, could you not install the game, or any game for that matter on a virtual drive useing Isobuster>mount image>virtual drive ....... for arguements sake.

Just a thought

McGraw · 20-05-2005, 14:52

Thought about that but I think it's a waste of disk space.

bopdude · 20-05-2005, 14:56

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Originally Posted by McGraw

Thought about that but I think it's a waste of disk space.

If your disk space is that low ( your saying only the one game ) could you put it onto a gmail virtual hd, then its not really your space so to speak, don't know if it would work though

Matth · 20-05-2005, 20:29

If it's refusing to patch the EXE because the size is different, that probably means the content is different as well!

**Damien** · 20-05-2005, 20:47

Out of interest, are they any bad things you could do by making a file bigger?

Raistlin · 20-05-2005, 21:20

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Originally Posted by Damien

Out of interest, are they any bad things you could do by making a file bigger?

Let's say I write a virus.....

I pack my virus into an executable file (ends in .exe).....

I now call that file "notepad.exe" (which happens to be the name of the file that runs the Windows notepad application.....

I then substitute my file for the original file on the user's machine.....

The observant user will spot the difference in file size.....

Not if I can pad it out and make it bigger </me Evil Grin>

Richard M · 21-05-2005, 00:36

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Originally Posted by McGraw

Thought about that but I think it's a waste of disk space.

Just put the bloody CD in!
Jesus...it can't be that difficult.

McGraw · 21-05-2005, 15:16

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Originally Posted by McGraw

It's ok, I have an original exe and have now decided to just leave the disc in the drive.

bdav · 21-05-2005, 16:41

If you made the virus, you just put some time wasting in the source code - easy!