NFS: Most Wanted No-CD found...maybe

[caki]

Well I dont have the original exe either, but since this is 6 megs and that is such a low EP I can only deduce that it is in .text, which means a fully unpacked exe. Which is ****ing good because that means someone has cracked SDAPI. Can you PM me the exe? I would like to disasm it a bit . You dont have to

[glenbo]

it aint a exe its a maxi image lol,didnt anyone even check it before making a thread lol.

[DABhand]

The one I sent is an exe, I do know the difference between an image and a win32 executable :P

[caki]

Woops I thought the EP you posted was with imagesbase lol. EP is in safedisc section. This smells like a fake, just like the one that Empire removed . It also has the same group tag...

[DABhand]

Was dated the other day, oh well worth a chance anyways :P

[caki]

100% fake. Thats that. Just looked at it.

Too bad

[glenbo]

arghhhhhhh (in a somerset accent) lol
i crapped my pants with exitment when i noticed this thread :P (<< not litrally) (but pretty darn close)

ooo well

[jhuk]

Here this is from my other posting:

"I grabbed that nodvd out other day here ( http://m2010.gamecopyworld.com/download.php?d=2005&f=NFSMW-MINI!rar ), its like 858+KB but extracts to 1.74gig (we know its not really this size but all filled with 0's but windows sees it as this size so takes it out your HDD space), anyhow do as that peep told me and compress it using the windows compression option and REBOOT PC, then its back to tiny file, mount in daemon tools V4 and play game (i dont need to hide daemon now, not sure if you will)"

"BTW i have legit 4CDR version from 17th Nov"

So basically you will then have tiny file of 1.23MB (ondisk size) on your HDD (only once you compress and reboot), and if your lucky like me you may not need hide daemon V4 anymore.

[Joe Forster/STA]

Errr, why would you need to reboot?!

[jhuk]

You really need me to tell you why you need reboot PC after compressing the .mdf ?, I will give you a hint (1) look at your HDD space left before you extract the rar, (2) then look at HDD space after you extract the rar, (3) then look at HDD space after you compress the .mdf, (4) then finally look at HDD space after you reboot PC, come back and tell me what doesnt change from stage 2 till after stage 4.


P.S I would simply have replied with the answer to your question, if i didnt detect a slight smartass attitude, you werent really asking for real IMO.

[Joe Forster/STA]

Uhm, is this the problem with putting maxi images onto the (NTFS-formatted) Windows system partition and then using Windows compression on them? For a test, I put a maxi image onto an NTFS-formatted partition other than the Windows system partition, on my work PC at my work place, compressed it and I won back the size of the maxi image (minus the 1 Megabyte size of the Windows-compressed maxi image) instantly. (See my test results in this thread: http://fileforums.com/showthread.php?t=73889 ) I cannot try maxi images on my Windows system partition as it has only half a Gigabyte of free space left...

[Edit] As for the smartass attitude, sorry about that! 1) I thought you were simply fooled by that guide you quoted and didn't check whether or not all steps are necessary and 2) I'm listening to discussions so that I can add confirmed tricks to the forum FAQ.

[jhuk]

NP's , I looked at partiton and it was bang on 20.3gig, i lost over 1.5gig with that file unrared even after compressing, it wasnt till i was able to reboot PC 5 hours later (was busy) i got the space back as the person told me i would in here.

All on XP Pro SP2 NTFS obv

[DABhand]

I have the image on my main partition as 1.25mb compressed.