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  1. Care to expand on that? As far as I know integers: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. are the same in ANY OS, any Earth lamguage and ost probably (read definitely) on any othe planet as well.... jaclaz
  2. Should not - by any chance - DOSBOX work properly, you can also run good ol' DOS in a "full" VM, like the freeware QEMU (+Qemu manager) or Virtualbox: http://www.davereyn.co.uk/ http://www.virtualbox.org/ jaclaz
  3. USB support is built-in since Windows 95 OSR 2.5. You need NO additional drivers for "USB support", unless your install is somewhat faulty, you might need specific drivers fro the USB device you want to use, if it's a "Mass Storage" device (read USB stick or HD) see here: http://www.msfn.org/board/Maximum-Decim-Na...ers-t43605.html http://www.msfn.org/board/Generic-98-USB-d...RKS-t99220.html jaclaz
  4. Boy, do I like when people reasons like that! jaclaz
  5. Maybe these explain further : http://www.msfn.org/board/Drive-letters-sh....html&st=28 http://www.msfn.org/board/Partitions-Prima...078#entry233078 About THE question: NO, it is not. jaclaz
  6. The matter is COMPLETELY different in Window 9x/Me from NT/2K/XP/2003. On NT based systems, the OS detects the device (on DOS based ones the BIOS is "more trusted") and loads the drivers accordingly. Which means, as an example, that a "normal" USB stick CANNOT be "fdisked" (i.e. using Disk management) unless it is seen by the OS as "fixed", hence the use of either the "removable bit flipping manufacturer utility" or a Filter Driver, or the "special" utilities like the HP one, petousb, makebootfat, and Swissknife, on the contrary DOS/Win9x/Me will allow to use fdisk allright. See these for some references and links: http://www.msfn.org/board/USB-Multi-Partit...37.html&hl= http://www.msfn.org/board/USB-Autorun-t112098.html&hl= Once a hardware "mass storage" device is recognized, if a partition or volume is found it is assigned a drive letter, then comes into play the file system recognizer driver, that checks whether the letter corresponds to a volume formatted as a known filesystem (for which a driver is installed on the system), if it is when you access the drive by double clicking on it you will see the files within it, otherways you will be prompted for formatting the volume. Nonetheless, it is possible to access the device as RAW data with particular programs. If you could expand a bit on the question and on its backgrounds, I may be able to give you a more "targeted" answer. jaclaz
  7. It's interesting, thanks. But it just makes a few mods. I am no programmer, and I have NO idea whether the following is possible or not, or whether it would be excessively difficult to do the same in a "portable", possiblu running from PE too,program, but I can maybe describe how ideally an all purpose program like this should work, based on a spreadsheet based one (yeah, I know, but still MUCH better than the 60 Mb of .Net stuff and libraries that need to be installed to run a "Hello, world" program). Basically I read the entire content of TXTSETUP.SIF, order it along a more "logical" order (at least to me) of sections than the original one, then add a structured category "tag" for each entry depending on the section it is and its contents and a "flag" to disable (by adding a ";" at the beginning) then I check or uncheck either "catgories" or "items" tags and export as .txt the second sheet in the spreadsheet containing formulas that extract the data from first one. I have tried this approach on a (VERY limited project) minimizing Recovery Console: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...20983&st=18 and this (small scale) approach is rather handy and does speed up testing considerably. Maybe if the same or similar approach is used in a "real" program, it could be very useful on larger things like a "full" install, PE builfing or whatever, even .ini files that use this [Section] Item=value I dream about something that looks more like a filesystem (as seen in Explorer "Explore") or as the Registry (as seen in Regedit.exe) with structured tickboxes near "directories" ([sections]) and "files" (Items)... possibly such an app already exist and I never happened to find it... jaclaz
  8. jaclaz

    FixMBR

    Have a look at both these batches: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/MBRBatch-0...LPHA-t3191.html http://www.boot-land.net/forums/MakeBScmd-...EASE-t2362.html You should get enough info to write a few lines of batch to use dsfo/dsfi to perform what you want, or you can do it manually, see here: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...=3226&st=15 and just use "446" instead of "512". jaclaz
  9. FYI, in a couple of seemingly unrelated threads, here: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...c=20983&hl= and here: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/XPSP1-with...0-MB-t3717.html we are trying to get very reduced systems in order (also) to "better play" with the loading of drivers, expecially USB "boot" ones. Nothing useful has (yet) come out, but maybe we'll get soon somewhere . jaclaz
  10. jaclaz

    USB Autorun

    Sorry, but if it's not in that thread or in any link on it, it means that the Kingston tool does not exist (or more probably has NOT been found yet). However, you seem to fail the point of previous posts two conditions must be true concurrently, the settings on the machine AND how the stick is "seen". If you do not find the tool to modify the hardware, you need to modify the software, and since most probably you need to tweak something on the machine anyway.... Here are a couple of related threads with some good links and info: http://www.msfn.org/board/Autorun-USB-pend...ble-t60338.html http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=13205 jaclaz
  11. jaclaz

    N00b Qestions

    The "usual" way is to go and buy a LICENSE, the guys that sell them tend to give you a "Retail" original CD also in exchange for your money. You might want to read attentively these: http://www.msfn.org/board/Forum-Rules-Upda...ead-t18408.html before going further down this path. jaclaz
  12. jaclaz

    N00b Qestions

    Hmmm, you seem to fail to see the main point of all the work that fdv a.k.a Fred de Vorck and number of other people (with some little contributions by me) have done in latest years, which is dedicated to the REMOVAL of Internet Explorer and of Explorer, also. And as said, the idea of a MINIMAL, EXPERIMENTAL anything is to be, well, MINIMAL and EXPERIMENTAL, so it is well suited for a "project OS" but VERY unsuitable for a "final user". jaclaz
  13. jaclaz

    USB Autorun

    There are TWO ways to make a USB stick seen as "Fixed": 1) Find the controller chip manufacturer tool and "flip" the "Removable" bit off, some utilities have been found for some chips, see this thread here: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=15776 2) Use a Filter Driver, there are two known ones, the "Hitachi Microdrive Filter" and the Anton Bassov's "dummydisk.sys": http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...=14292&st=7 http://www.codeproject.com/KB/system/sovie...ct_hooking.aspx Whether any of the above will make the autorun feature working I cannot say. jaclaz
  14. @outcastc Happy you managed to solve your problem. @all About my off-topic remark, it came straight out of this previous thread on boot-land: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...ic=3380&hl= It seems that the mapping of "ununderstandable" languages changes from country to country.... We have found till now: Chinese Arabic Greek Turkish Double-dutch "a book from Heaven" and, of course, English: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...=3380&st=36 jaclaz
  15. jaclaz

    N00b Qestions

    FYI, that screenshot is from a very early build, with cmd.exe as shell, last version uses blackbox, and it is runnning IN Qemu, which is a (free, Open Source) Virtual Machine. jaclaz
  16. ...which takes you back to square #2 jaclaz
  17. @mtec @angel0104 Maybe you should try to integrate the drivers "normally". See these: http://www.msfn.org/board/Add-slipstream-S...ion-t77999.html http://www.msfn.org/board/XP-network-unatt...ATA-t32594.html jaclaz
  18. Sorry if this is not the right place, but I guess that experts with Unattended are the most likely to know the answer. When you boot from the 2K/XP CD on a PC that already has one (or more) installs, Setup "detects" them and offers the option to Repair them. Question is, HOW is this detection performed? I mean does it search for entries in BOOT.INI, looks for \Windows or \Winnt folders, searches the entire hard disk for some "tag" files or what else? And another one, it is possible to install 2K/XP on a non-standard directory (i.e. not named \Windows or \Winnt) but must this directory be on ROOT of the drive or it can be a sub-directory, as an example \MywinXP\Windows ? Thanks in advance for any and all ideas/suggestions. jaclaz
  19. Thanks for the guide. But, to be picky, a number of those settings should not influence performance AT ALL, being mostly "tool addons" like the MoveTo, CopyTo or cmd prompt or specific "visual" tweaks, like the ones for Notepad. Also, you sure one should name the .reg file FYI (cannot say if it works for Vista, but it works on 2K and XP) this .DLL is VERY handy: http://www.msfn.org/board/util-shell-exten...4.html&st=8 http://www.roggel.com/NGNeer/BackgroundCMD/index.shtml jaclaz
  20. [Out of topic] Just for the fun of it.... what is the reasoning behind the idea that a Chinese member has a better knowledge (instead of English) of German and not, say, Portuguese? Nice try, however! [/Out of topic] jaclaz
  21. Not exactly what you ask, but if you use Explorer, do check the "PrettyPath" key on your sytem: http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article02-101 jaclaz
  22. jaclaz

    N00b Qestions

    If you really want a "bare" XP, ONLY capable of running one (or a few) apps, have a look here: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/XPSP1-with...0-MB-t3717.html VERY, and I mean VERY, experimental, but I guess that nothing can be smaller. The manual method hinted there should work for you too. Simply re-add the referenced .DLL's to %SystemRoot%\System32\ and try if it works. If it does not, try using regsrv32.exe to register those .DLL's that require registrations. jaclaz
  23. Maybe you can use an external program, WAITFORFILE: http://www.gdps.dk/products/freeware.shtml jaclaz
  24. OK, now that everyone is happy and there is an ENTIRE sub-forum here at MSFN, we do not want to make another "mega-thread" don't we? Please, if you have a problem with these files, start a NEW thread, possibly with a meaningful title. If you want to thank any of the authors, post here: http://www.msfn.org/board/Credits-t111401.html I splitted and made new threads as it seemed correct to me, if any of the previous poster had their post(s) moved wrongly, please PM me, I'll try and fix the misplacement. jaclaz
  25. Also, this one is VERY handy: http://www.scheernet.de/cmdli/dokumentatio...l#eigenschaften http://www.scheernet.de/cmdli/download/index_en.html NO frills, very effective. jaclaz
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