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[Earnie]

OK, I don't want to do this. Too afraid I'm gonna damage something.

[dedndave]

lol - fear is a good thing - it keeps you from doing stupid shit
but, if you want to write software, you are going to learn to deal with it at some point
device drivers are probably easiest to test with a floppy
but under vm, i would think you'd be pretty safe

imagine how the guy must have felt that wrote the first "format" command   :P

[oex]

imagine how the guy must have felt that wrote the first "format" command   :P

I guess that depends on who owned the computer :bg

[Earnie]

device drivers are probably easiest to test with a floppy

If i make an image of the whole computer, could I really kill my system so that it won't be accessible anymore? 

[oex]

device drivers are probably easiest to test with a floppy

If i make an image of the whole computer, could I really kill my system so that it won't be accessible anymore? 

Just be sure to understand what you are trying to do and make sure you have backups of anything important.... Dont write and test low level code on your companies work servers (in fact you're probably best off testing on the 10 year old heap of junk in the garage if you're not sure what you're doing)

[Earnie]

 :dance:

I changed my approach and booted from a floppy disk.

Tested the simple.sys and the null.sys

Both worked!

:dance:

[dedndave]

a floppy is much simpler, huh
one common problem with a buggy device driver is - it will hang
if that happens, you just take the floppy out and you're back in business   :bg