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I must find a properly conducted disk emulator! all i can find on google are spam sites and theory. But, what im trying to find is a program that can read any disk. If they were meant for different operating systems for example an xbox, I want to see it all in source code. Every computer runs on zeros and ones, i want to see it all within any disk i have.

If what your asking is to be able to read the files any any type of disk it's a bit impossible. It's not that they're ones and zeros, it's knowing how to read their order. some file systems are proprietary, some are encrypted, and there is no way to know how to read them with out agreeing to sell your soul and a good portion of your body.
If you just want to see the raw bytes then cat /dev/drive and the appropriate disc reader is all you would need I think.

There's a world of difference between machine code (the binary/hex values that a raw read is going to give you) and source code (the uncompiled human readable text). Unless you've got a copy of the XBox (for example) opcode list, it's going to just be a whole batch of gibberish. Even then, you probably wouldn't be able to follow what's going on. Believe me, I was required to use debug to follow program execution for a class. Even when you wrote the assembly code that went into the bytecode, it's not easy to understand what's going on sometimes.

this kind of thing can get awfully complicated awfully quickly. also don't download any of those programs without good anti-virus because you will most likely get viruses with them and the viruses can easily crash your PC

'gibberish'? I've read wave files before. I just need something that will 'open a door' into the xbox disc universe, to turn on the light and see into the dark. Like DNA, you don't even know it's there until you use a microscope.



dun worry I always have anti virus on and always run programs in a seperate part of the computer. :wink:

And like DNA, without extensive knowledge and the ability to sequence it, you won't have the slightest idea what any particular bit of it does.

A data file like a wave is constructed according to a well understood standard. Waves are pretty easy to understand. There was a time when I could literally read a hex textfile almost as easily as when it was rendered ASCII. ;) I'm just saying that executables are not quite so simple in structure, and an executable for a specific hardware setup will be less understandable.

You want a recommendation? You could try using Linux's dd program to get a raw read of the disc and then use whatever you saw fit to look at the resulting image.

aww man i hate linux computers, my uncle has one though. i perfer sticking with xp :?

The problem when dealing with Windows is that it has a strong tendency to pretend that nothing is in the drive when it doesn't understand the "language" of the disc in question. I've never tried to make an iso (or similar disk image), out of disk for something other than my PC, but if you can convince that to work, you could examine the disk image. That might provide what you want to see. *shrug*