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Now, seriously: nothing is safe, but XP is about as unsafe as 10 (maybe even less, now that it's below 2% market share, and MS compilers set Subsystem Version to 6.1 by default... ). However, security is mainly a PEBCAK, more than anything else. My 2¢, which you asked for.

Of course! Long live XP!

Sure. I had that info in mind when I started to object. So, the 1st cluster of the root dir is at boot_sector:0x02C and if the FAT entry for that cluster says 0x0FFFFFFF (= End of cluster Chain aka EoC), then the root directory is just 1 cluster long (which can perfectly mean 64 sectors of 512 bytes). And in case all entries in the root dir fit and it never grows, then the alignment at the 2nd cluster (provided boot_sector:0x02C = 2) may make sense. That's ifs galore, don't you agree? BTW, just in case you're having a bout of insomnia, you might like this old thread:

Now I'm confused: AFAICR, the volume label on a FAT32 cannot exceed 11 characters (upercase letters, numbers or underscore only) and do exist starting at offset 0x47 in the PBR (with a second copy at 0xC47, which is not always updated) and as a 32-bytes (short-)entry in the root directory pointing nowhere and having 0-size (which, of course, can be forced to be the 1st entry). So, then, what do you mean by "1st cluster" containing the volume label? Since when the volume label occupies *any* cluster? Can any of you shine some light on my deep puzzlement? TIA. =============== Unless one is assuming the root directory will always be at cluster # 2 (not necessarily true) and that the root directory always will fit in a single cluster (not necessarily true, either), although both assumptions can be true when the whole disk is created at once, say, by RMPrepUSB. Is that it?

Observe that ouf riends at Ridgecrop Consultants make the source of fat32format available and tell us it compiles with MSVS 6.0, so that adding an option for the command line version to align FAT32 should be possible and it even might be possible to interest them on doing it themselves. But, at the moment, @jumper also has a working setup for compiling things with MSVS 6.0, so he also might become interested in creating an experimental version of it.

After Symantec bought Peter Norton's brand (late 1990), they've never lived up to his quality standards... I regret to disagree, but Norton Antivirus is a powerful resource hog and a very good generator of crappy false-positives, nothing more.

For those interested, reboot.pro has a section for its discussions and support. Here we remain adamant about it. 'Nuff said! N.B.: Any mod (myself included) may decide to sanitized this thread in the near future. I advise those interested to print or otherwise save it.

That's warez. Maybe not from your POV, but from MSFN's it *is*. No discusson about it is allowed at all.

Banned per user request (not to mention Rules # 2.a, 7.a and 7.b, of course).

Stop bumping this thread, already!

That's not a fact: @jumper did answer it, already. In fact, he might as well have just replied "yes". Why do you refuse to be more specific?

What part of "please be more specific" did you fail to understand?

Great catch!

Ain't we always???

Now that XP is below 4% market share? If they cared to give trouble wouldn't they have done it already? Moreover they actually have taken down the whole on-demand Hotfix help-yourself site, haven't they? Isn't that enough? In any case, get yourself a Velostat cap, just to be on the safe side, then start donning it, stop worrying and be happy, by Toutatis!

Done!

A simple solution would be to move on to optical fiber. In case your ISP provides it, just move over. If not, change ISP. Optical fiber all the way to the room whence you live stream wiil ignore all kinds of electromagnetic inerference, and ought to be at least as fast but usually is faster than your current connection. And the cost, at least here in Brazil, is competitive... since you're in the "1st world" instead, you may find out it can be even cheaper, depending on where in the US you're located. Good luck!

It requires RLoew's custom patches, most of which are not free. In case you're still interested, do PM him.

I'm glad you found out the issue and fixed it! As for autorenew, that's beyond us (at MSFN) in a sense... fact is paypal is undergoing some renovations (not all of which I do like, to be sure) and (as it already happened in the past) they've dropped things, one does not really know whether for good or just temporarily, and some autorenew settings (among other things) fell into the memory hole. Maybe (but no guarantee whatsoever) next time you renew it'll be again possible to chose that. Sorry about that!

It's OK: I only run XP/7/*n?x/MS-DOS 7 nowadays... but I may add OpenVMS/Illumos/*BSD sometime in the future, too. And *BIG* disks are for data. I run my OSes from partitions inside 120/128GB SSDs nowadays (sometimes from fast pendrives, too, although I know you don't consider them pendrives at all)...

So it seems, for all practical purposes, 4KiB sectors are the upper limit, right?

Sure! There are reasons galore... none good (@jaclaz'll surely disagree, of course), in fact, but that's beside the point.

+1

Best way to find out is to call the original

Done!