int 13h in windows protected mode?

Question

Could we use the Int 13h (direct disk read/write) in Windows operating systems or does the windows protected mode not allow us, and if so is there a work round? Thanks in ad

Answer 1

As others have mentioned it won't work unless you are using 16 bit - MSDOS, but if you are on a 32 bit system and have debug.exe you could try it for yourself. (You may crash your OS!) Simply enter the commands mov ax, etc.. int 13h etc.. then execute it.