Topic: Advanced Hidden Option?
started by: Wesmosis
Posted by Wesmosis on Nov. 22 2005,11:41
How can I get the benefit of advanced hidden option? I'm curious to know what is it for?!!off topic:
I installed Daemon 4, but the virtual Drive option still greyed, any idea why?
thans, btw I've bin a fan from loooooooong time
Posted by Incroyable HULK on Nov. 22 2005,19:55
Usefull option to hide folders. You won't be able to "see" this content even if you turned on the show hidden files and folder in windows...
Posted by xoben on Nov. 22 2005,20:59
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| I installed Daemon 4, but the virtual Drive option still greyed, any idea why? |
UltraISO does not support D-Tools 4 yet.
Posted by Wesmosis on Nov. 23 2005,07:39
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| Usefull option to hide folders. You won't be able to "see" this content even if you turned on the show hidden files and folder in windows... |
and then how can I show them again after I burned the ISO?! yeah I heard that those files\folderswith advanced hidden option will be Invisible in DOS & Windows
but what's the advantage of this option? can you elaborate?
@xoben
thanx, what's is supported then?
Posted by Incroyable HULK on Nov. 23 2005,07:48
| Quote (Wesmosis @ Nov. 23 2005,08:39) |
and then how can I show them again?! yeah I heard that those files\folderswith advanced hidden option will be Invisible in DOS & Windows but what's the advantage of this option? can you elaborate? |
I use it to hide the folders of my unattended Windows Installation CD... this way, the layout is cleaner and my work is somehow protected.
I wish it was trully "irreversible" for a good protection...
Posted by Wesmosis on Nov. 23 2005,08:46
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| I use it to hide the folders of my unattended Windows Installation CD... this way, the layout is cleaner and my work is somehow protected. |
Daaaaaaaaaaaaamn!I knew it's for something great like that
wow man you mademy dreams came through by this, so the uAXPSP2CD now works fine but the folders and the files are hidden like Ghosts!
I'm so fond trying protecting my CDs,I tried TZ proggies, kinda cool but difficult to use and buggy
so correct if am wrong: this advanced hidden option for not letting the newbies and avarage-joe users to see what's inside from important settings like the winnt.sif and RunExOnce.cmd ........etc and also not to remove the cool oemlogo.bmp lol?
and yeah sure it's doesn't protect from burning and other stuff
[EDIT]
I'm so thrilled for the idea, I made all my uAXPSP2CD ISO files attributed Advanced Hidden, I load the ISO by Daemon Tools 4, and that's the big surprise, nothing is there except of some text files that I left them Visible!
and to make sure , load it in VMware and Bingo! still boots up normally and Setup Windows XP like nothing abnoraml is there
####! I wished I know this trick ages before
[EDIT2]
Oh man, Windows Setup told me to Insert CD XPSP2!
so here is the Q, what files are safe to be atrributed AH and then the uAXPSP2CD works fine?
Posted by Incroyable HULK on Nov. 23 2005,12:03
| Quote (Wesmosis @ Nov. 23 2005,09:46) |
| [EDIT2] Oh man, Windows Setup told me to Insert CD XPSP2! so here is the Q, what files are safe to be atrributed AH and then the uAXPSP2CD works fine? |
Ah Ha! that's the catch, you have to leave the indend files "visible" at the root:
WIN51
WIN51IP
WIN51IP.SP2
(you can still use regular hidden attribute on theses files if you want)
I agree with you, this is one of the most interesting feature for me! I just wish this could be irreversible like I saw on those Acronis Bootable Media...
Posted by mionica on Nov. 23 2005,23:10
Actually, it is possible to really hide a file on a disk with ISO9660 and Joliet. It requires manual editing of the generated ISO file, though, using a hex editor (I would recommend [Sen's] Hiew 7).The idea is that, if any Joliet-capable OS sees that the CD has a Joliet file system, it would ignore the ISO9660 one. Therefore, by removing a file's directory entry from the Joliet filesystem, it would be non-existant in the view of OS's such as Windows and Linux, and also on applications such as UltraISO and WinISO.
But there's a catch: to gain access to that file, you need to use the ISO9660 filesystem, which is something you can't decide for (except with IsoBuster). Therefore, one could really hide the boot folder of some XP (because the bootloader - setupldr.bin - uses only ISO9660), but not the XP kit itself. Also, in good old plain DOS, such "hidden" files are visible at all times, because MSCDEX/SHSCDEX/NWCDEX only use ISO9660, and not Joliet.
Anyway, think I just got the idea for a new suggestion for xoben...
Posted by deddy on Nov. 24 2005,02:49
I try use "Advanced hidden" to CDShell folder. But when I boot CD, it not found the CDShell folder. I downlod cdshell from< http://dw.ezbsys.net/boot.zip >
Please, help me..
Posted by mionica on Nov. 24 2005,17:33
Please post a description of exactly what have you done.I'm using CDShell in conjunction with EasyBoot a great deal, and I haven't ever encountered this problem. Most likely, you did something wrong, or didn't do something you had to.
Posted by deddy on Nov. 24 2005,21:21
Dear mionica,Here I explain step-by-step my project to apply "advanced hidden" :
1) First, I build simple bootable CD with create one menu choice : "Norton Commander for DOS"
2) I create this menu choice with cdshel, the structure folder is:
c:\EasyBoot\disk1\cds\nc\modules\isolinux
3) I success to boot from this CD
4) Then, I try to apply "Advanced hidden" to folder "cds"
5) When I try to boot this CD, then it appear error : "Could not find kernel image: /CDS/NC/modules/isolinux/memdisk"
Posted by xoben on Nov. 25 2005,08:10
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| 4) Then, I try to apply "Advanced hidden" to folder "cds" 5) When I try to boot this CD, then it appear error : "Could not find kernel image: /CDS/NC/modules/isolinux/memdisk" |
cdshell does not support 'Advanced Hidden' directory, but EasyBoot does.
Posted by XMEN on Jan. 04 2006,23:17
Anybody...Please help me..
I can't read my files that hidden with Advanced Hidden option. How to read these files ?
Please...
Best regard
XMEN
Posted by xoben on Jan. 05 2006,08:54
Hi XMEN, you can use 'File'->'Open CD/DVD' function of UltraISO to read these files.
Posted by inimicaljords on Jan. 11 2006,20:14
I have an iso file that seems to have the advanced hidden feature on it. I can't find the files at all. I have tried the open cd method through ultraiso. I have tried reading it through many other various iso readers. Mounting doesn't show the files. I have even tried mounting the iso through linux and I still cannot see the data. I am trying to update some data on the cd but i have to extract the files from the cd in order to update it and I can't update it because I can't see any of the files. Any solutions or ideas?BTW the iso is a bootable image. It boots off the cd but no files can be seen.
Posted by xoben on Jan. 11 2006,20:56
Some Acronis bootable CDs have only boot record, no files is available.PS: Use 'Bootable'->'Save boot file', you may get a large BIF file.
Posted by XMEN on Jan. 12 2006,04:46
Thank to XOBEN,..I have try Advanced Hidden in my folder, and my application still can read my files, but windows cannot read that folder (this verry good).
I try Advanced Hidden in my files, and i want to read them with my application (without UltraIso). Can I read my files without UltraISO ?
Best Regard
XMEN
Posted by xoben on Jan. 12 2006,04:49
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| I try Advanced Hidden in my files, and i want to read them with my application (without UltraIso). Can I read my files without UltraISO ? |
It is not possible to access Advanced Hidden files with standard Windows API.
Posted by XMEN on Jan. 14 2006,07:17
Hi Mr. XOBENIf I can't read that files with Advanced idden option with API standart Windows. Than How I can read that files without UltraISO ?
Is there an other API that can read this files ?
Best Regard
XMEN
Posted by xoben on Jan. 14 2006,09:08
You can access them by decoding the ISO 9660 volume in your program, just as what UltraISO does.