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I repartitioned my PATA hard drive connected via VIA VT6410 using GParted v0.13.1-git, and re-installed Windows XP SP3, after accidentally deleting the previous operating system. Partitioning involved deleting the primary partition, deleting a logical partition, and downsizing the extended partition to free up more space for a slightly larger new primary one. Now the drive is showing double the actual capacity and non-existant Unallocate space in XP's Logical Disk Manager. There don't seem to be any issues with accessing files, nor the disk at block level. Assuming I don' t attempt to use the Windows disk manager. The other SDA drive contains intentionally disabled partitions, and is supposed to look this way. The odd thing about the disk layout is that the SWAP partition is on a later entry in the Extended partition, except being physically located before D and E, since it was added later. I created this situation accidentally, but this causes Windows 98 (which works properly) to assign drive letter F to it (and put it at the end of the disk list). (not true anymore, the SWAP parition is now listed between D and F) I tried a few RAID driver versions. Have you seen anything like this?

So true. Also, the Microsoft knowledge base often seems to speak a different language that is more difficult to comprehend compared to an Internet forum. Instead of one paragraph summarizing a problem followed by instructions to resolve it, I see one warning about warranty, another warning about editing the registry, that is written in style that borders with legalese, after which I stop reading. I trust and value Microsoft's solutions the least because I expect them to be heavily biased and limited because of copyright or business reasons. They will usually not direct me to get files from an older operating system, or to a small patch that enables 48-bit LBA. But will load a webpage that is bigger than those files I need and that suggests to upgrade to a yet bigger SP or a newer product. Removing files is consistent with their practice of not offering a disk with retail and even Volume licenses (at least a few years ago when I was in the line of work). They can pull and replace versions at will, to decide what is best and ensure we have the latest Genuine Advantage and Rights Management.

I would like to install 64-bit Windows XP/2003 on a remote computer I cannot have physical access to. Before I waste any time on it, which would be slow process in any case, I would like to hear a prognosis if there is any chance it can be done at all. The installation should resume after all files have been copied from the "CD" (onto the active harddisk partition by me) and, without asking a single question, including about the serial number and languages, proceed with the installation, reboot as many times as needed, configure the network adapters with DHCP, and give me access via Terminal Services. Edit: Failed to do it. The installation might be missing a mass storage driver.

The screenshot looks alright. Ffdshow is being used for both video and audio, and the MP4 splitter is invisible because it doesn't have a property dialog. Haali splitter hasn't been installed. Haali Media Splitter has very high compatibility with different files of types MKV, MP4, AVI and OGG. It is very possible that you'll receive a file in the future that is unplayable with other decoders. Haali also offers the useful choice of language (audio stream) from within the basic Win98 Media Player.

I have not used these cards in while. But I remember ATI X550 lacking support for high resolution VESA modes. On the other hand, nVidia 6200 with 128 Megs of RAM, had it. There may have been other issues with the nVidia card, which may have revealed themselves later on, though.

Utopia sounds from the win95 CD: http://www.fileden.com/files/2012/4/26/3297107/utopia95.rar

Sorry for not getting back sooner It is an exe installer, but because of my web hosting I had to chage the extension to .ex_, which I thought would be obvious. Rename it and run it. As far as I know, versions later than 2007 do not work under Windows 98. You disable the icons. Call up the configuration dialog for both video, audio. You have links for them in the Start Menu. The go to Tray, dialog & paths, and choose not to display any icons (screenshot, may differ slightly). Nero installs components for MPEG-4 playback. To see which codecs are in use during playback, run Windows Media Player (mplayer2.exe), and look at the stream properties (screenshot). You want to see ffdshow there for good quality playback. AFAIK, the Microsoft Codecs are only needed for WMA/WMV/ASF playback or authoring.

I am assuming that you're using Windows 98. There is only one video decoder needed for nearly every format out there, ffdshow. • Haali Media Splitter 2007-06-03 (MP4, MKV, AVI, MPEG) • ffdshow_beta5_rev2033_20080705_clsid.exe Try an older build if this doesn't work for you, but it should. This decoder will even play old QuickTime Sorenson-encoded MP4/MOV streams. Format support for every stream type can be enabled or disabled, make sure the relevant H.264, SV**, XviD are ticked. ffdshow can also do audio. Media Info can be used to analyze your file, and determine the formats of each stream in it.

Have you actually installed the correct device driver for USB Mass Storage, either through the Unoffical Service Pack or by running the seperate NUSB*.EXE installer?

Using ATI PCI-E cards, I was not able to set a VESA video mode in DOS that required more than a megabyte of video RAM. On the brighter side this also for some reason made the DOS console open quicker.

A complete old computer does bring back memories of events, unrelated to electronics, that occurred around that or a similar machine. I recently set up Win95 to satisfy my curiosity, and it was the old custom wallpaper that finished the picture and made me pause for a while. Not sure what you mean by deep-rate. Win95 had 16-color icons. I am, however, using WinXP SP1 with Windows 98 icons. Detailed listings are much more usable, with 16*16 icons readily distinguishable. I tried to make a patch for SP2, but it has way too many new functions for which a suitable icon doesn't exist. +1. I get accustomed to this speed and can't settle with less.

Support for .RTPatch. This is a format for software updates. A patch may contain differences from the original data, as well as complete files. The complete files can be extracted using a command-line utility that is redistributed inside some self-installing patches. It takes the patch data file, stripped from the "SFX header" as an argument. The piece of code is not free, though.

I have yet to see an installation of windows GUI that does not tear. I've accepted it as norm. Monitor can be ruled out immediately because it works at the host's clock rate, as long as it is within reasonable limits.

I recently received this motherboard: Intel D845GVAD2. It has STAC9750 audio codec onboard, but it's not working. The line out is dead silent, ADC works, computer behaves normally otherwise. If I play something back, there is a little crosstalk of this material onto the line-in recording. So, it doesn't look like a software problem to me, or does it? The front_audio jumper block has the documented pins shorted except "Mic Bias <-> +5V". I didn't risk putting a jumper over those contacts, because if the markings are right, only the mic jack would be affected anyway. What gives?

I am running Windows XP Pro SP1. Under some circumstances all my opened become "topmost". It becomes impossible to switch to another window by pressing Alt-Tab or clicking a taskbar button. I must press "minimize" on each window or "show desktop" to switch and it drives me crazy. After some time (again I don't know what causes this) windows return to normal behaviour. I've experienced this defect on three installations of WinXP SP1. Never under Win98(FE/SE). How to get rid if it? Is there a kbd shortcut to trigger this state?

I have a HDD which started to develop bad sectors. I want to attempt continue using it with the damaged parts mapped out. The problem is that Disk Doctor does not mark block which are almost dead. When it reaches these sectors, computer pauses for a moment, but after that sectors are still deemed "good". I want to disable a safe range around the failing block. Is there a DOS or Win98/2k/XP program capable of doing that on FAT32?

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DOS UnRAR could prove useful in some cases. I recently used RAR format to transfer an operating system to another computer using diskettes. Of course UnRar is free. It can be downloaded for various operating systems from Rar homepage.

Quite a big recovery partition, I would say. 11 Gigs. However, I recently read about ASUS low end laptops with more space devoted to software than is available to the user. Oh my.

So, only Windows built-in dialogs are now displayed using Tahoma? Or is MS Sans Serif now completely overriden and inacessible? Old fashioned way of booting into DOS or boot CD is just as good.

For substitution to have effect, the font you are trying to substitute should be deleted. I have deleted the real MS Sans Serif. But substitution did not always work. Therefore I have created a copy of the Tahoma font with edited name to say "MS Sans Serif". However, now some dialogs are broken. (1) In many cases authors have allowed no padding space in the width of their controls. If text using Tahoma font would render longer, the last word would be word-wrapped and invisible. (2) In some cases non-Windows dialogs use font height 5 pt (IIRC). With MS Sans Serif this results in the normal height of 8 pt. Tahoma font however is being drawn in 5 points and is mostly illegible. Case 1 can be solved by editing respective programs using Resource Hacker. If you edit carefully there is no harm in distributing the modified executables (usually). For case 2 I have kept original bitmap font as "MS Sans Serix". I then open those broken programs with a hex editor and rename all occurences of "MS Sans Serif" to "MS Sans Serix". You must make sure not to distribute such badly modified programas as other users won't have MS Sans Serix on their systems. Then create font substitutions also for "MS Dialog", "Helv", "MS Shell Dlg", "MS Shell Dlg 2", some common font names used in dialogs to be replaced with Tahoma. This will improve looks of some Win16 programs, which previously used "System" or bold "MS Sans Serif" font (both are similar, did not pay much attention to tell). Would editing gdi.exe solve these two problems I encountered?

I did not know there was a beta. I looked at this forum and didn't see an announcement. Please ignore that remark. I've already unpacked that archive using innounp, only complaint was about the frontend not working properly.

This Inno installer is not seen as one. Universal Extractor is attempting to open it with Sevenzip. http://www.dvdfab.com/free.htm DVDFabHDDecrypter4102.exe

The driver is for "storage" devices. It just happen that Flash memory is most useful portable storage technology at this time. I've used this driver with a HDD enclosure and on old USB 1 computers (with flash). If Windows XP can work without a driver with your hard disk, there is a great chance this driver will enable Win98 to do the same.

Do you have the Native USB Storage Driver installed? http://www.msfn.org/board/Maximum-Decim-Na...ers-t43605.html