jaclaz

It is likely that the issue lies in the renewing of the DHCP lease. See if you can use any of these suggestions: https://serverfault.com/questions/648603/prevent-windows-server-2012-from-using-dhcp-provided-default-gateway Or otherwise (cannot say if you can do this in your setup/OS) set static IP (disable DHCP). jaclaz

The idea is (should be) that through a "repair" or "wipe" or both, the defective sectors are added to the so-called "G-list" and are remapped onto spare sectors. The 25 (is it in parameter 187 or 198?) should be the number of sectors in this G-list, it shouldn't ever reset, the G in G-list seemingly stays for "Growing". It doesn't seem to me a bad situation, but the overall health of the disk drive can be (maybe) better guessed from other S.M.A.R.T. parameters: but as said there you never know for sure. The sanest approach (as I see it) is to use the disk and see if in a short time of use the "key" parameters change noticeably. jaclaz

The estimation seems like not particularly optimistic, but 77% of 500 GB in 40 minutes doesn't sound bad at all. jaclaz

And I never said you did (though you did attribute to me a recommendation): I have no problems, thankfully, though your exclamation mark, is - of course - a (minor) nuisance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclamation_mark#English jaclaz

Just in case, what jaclaz said is CLEARLY here: Nothing more, nothing less.[1] To be even more clear, I did not start anything, I was asked explicitly for something and answered to the best of my knowledge (on something that I don't use, never used and don't foresee using in the near future and that I neither recommend, endorse, nor judge, criticize or comment in any way). jaclaz [1] last character is a full stop or period.

Now that you have the data saved, you should run the manufacturer test (the "extended" one) and see what results you get. jaclaz

Only as an example, SP2 removed PAE : In the case you had a "good" motherboard with "good" drivers and lots (at the time) of RAM XP SP2 was a "downgrade". But OP's procedure - unlike what the title suggests - does not actually install Office 2007 in SP1, it installs it on SP2 and then reverts back to SP1. It is unknown if anything "sticks" after uninstalling the service Pack 2. jaclaz

@AstroSkipper Not necessarily applying to this particular product (Vir.it), but being well known or popular is not always a proxi for anything but being well known or popular, and definitely not for quality or convenience. As an example, take DMDE (which I actually personally recommend[1]) as a program for data recovery, try finding it searching for a data recovery program, you will find that Recuva, Easeus and Wondershare are far more well known and popular, yet they - in the best case (if/when they work at all) - offer a fraction of the capabilities of DMDE. jaclaz [1] but that D.Draker cannot use because the programmer is Russian

I didn't "recommend" anything. I only provided - when asked - a link to it: No personal experience with it, all I can say is that it is VB100 certified (whatever relevance this may have) with a grade of D: https://www.virusbulletin.com/vb100/testing/tgsoft/vir-it-explorer-pro https://www.virusbulletin.com/uploads/vb100/test-reports/vb100-test-report-2023-04-21-vir-it-explorer-pro.pdf jaclaz

Do you mean that water is obtuse below 2,895 meters? jaclaz

Right angles boil at 90°, right? jaclaz

I am not sure to understand the question, if it is "how do I find to which file these 5 sectors belong to?", in DMDE you can create the (NTFS) cluster map and check on it. https://dmde.com/manual/clustermap.html If you want to compare-compare the results (given you have enough disk space) you can mount the DMDE dd-like image (even IMDISK will do for this purpose) then Robocopy out of it and compare the two Robocopy outputs though the results will (should) be identical. You can also try doing a (partial) image on reverse, it used to be a thing in the past, though I doubt it has any advantage on modern disks. jaclaz

It depends, but it doesn't seem like easy to do. https://gist.github.com/LukeZGD/9d781f1b03a69fa46869384a9407a41a good luck. jaclaz

Ah well, if Euronosta is not impressed that says something. jaclaz

Only to understand how these highly sophisticated soviet/ex-DDR communist agents operate: 1) they wait until you go visit your Bavarian friends 2) they break into your house (not necessarily a fortress house) 3) they rely on autorun to infect your PC 4) when (if) you wisely disabled autorun they go away muttering the equivalent (in Russian or German) of "D@mn, we can't do anything, autorun is disabled". jaclaz

Look for I/O Errors here: https://dmde.com/manual/devioparams.html One of the good things is that you can choose a pattern to fill skipped sectors. jaclaz

Not really *needed* in your case, but you don't really-really want to use linux dd or ddrescue (or dd_rescue). If you don't like/are not confident with command line tools you can use DMDE (from windows) to make an image: https://dmde.com/ using dmde as a recovery tool or disk editor is a bit complex but the imaging part is straightforward. jaclaz

I did understand that he was referring to UCyborg, mainly because D.Draker quoted him, but from Czechia to Slovenia there is some distance, maybe he was confused with Slovakia? jaclaz

As most (if not all) decisions on Wikipedia (right or wrong as it may be) it seems like the usual internal war about who has more power or is capable to win a logic argument on the (stupidly complex) wikipedia internal rules and voting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Google_Chrome_version_history_(2nd_nomination) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review#Google_Chrome_version_history_(2nd_nomination) jaclaz

Sure, it must have been done *not from the internal disk*, but the questions (unanswered) are more about what does fdisk actually do and whether a fdisk /MBR would have helped (or not). The generic (by me) suggestion to wipe the first 100 sectors of an hard disk when making a new install/partitioning would likely have avoided the problem, but the curiosity remains about what remained on disk that caused the issue and that diskpart clean removed. jaclaz

Whose country? The Author of Hdat2, a re-known and appreciated program was - last time I checked - Czech. The program has been around since forever (since 2004 or earlier), the possible issue with it is only that is DOS based so that - likely - in a short timeframe it won't be possible to run it on "common" modern motherboards (with UEFI only, without CSM/BIOS). About Kontron, they should be industrial grade boards (please read as very tough, usually slower than current retail boards, and - again usually - costly). Still, while they may well be engineered and assembled in Germany, they may be produced in various EU countries, Austria, Hungary, Slovenia: https://www.kontron-electronics.com/production/#c18 BUT, for large quantities: https://www.kontron-electronics.com/production/ they have cooperation with Asian manufacturers "Very large unit quantities are produced by our collaboration partner Ennoconn, a subsidiary of Foxconn". And of course their board assembly lines need anyway to source the components in China, Taiwan, South Korea, etc. Thomson says little nowadays, there are a few companies connected to the "historical" Thomson (which was fractioned/dissolved/bought/merged some 20 years ago), right now AFAIK the brand for consumer electronics is property of Established Inc., together with many (once traditional european ones such as Nordmende and Saba): https://established.inc/ https://established.inc/brands/ incorporated in Delaware, offers branding to *anyone* (please read as "to Chinese manufacturers"). The effects of globalization (like it or not) are so deep that today *anything* related to electronics is anyway originating in some Asian country, you simply cannot avoid that. The US are (again, rightly or wrongly) considering to re-gain manufacturing capabilities, but (if it will ever happen it will take years) while in EU there are only some projects of trifling relevance. As a side note, last time I was in Sweden (circa 2016) the representative of a local company operating in the steel sector (that I won't name for two reasons, first one being that I don't remember their name) for a large national building project told me how most of their steel products[1] were manufactured in China anyway (under their supervision and with excellent quality control, still ...). jaclaz [1] Sweden was once re-known in Europe for the quality of some "special" steel products

Please, no. Low-level format does not exist since more than 20 (more like 30) years. A manufacturer tool may (or may not) provide a way to check the ECC of sectors and re-map them, but that is NOT "low-level format". You probably (hopefully) want to suggest a complete 00 wiping of the hard disk (which is not low-level formatting). Using Spinrite 6.0 on a 500GB disk is - more than anything else - an act of faith in the future seeking capabilities of Steve Gibson. jaclaz

But not during setup, so in this case it remains more probable voodoo or the full moon at install time (if it was wednesday). jaclaz

Maybe. But during setup? Can you detail which cases? AFAIK (in it's time) there have been countless dual and triple boot installs with 98 and 2K or XP, and the presence of a non 00 disk signature never created an install issue for Windows 98 (that I can remember), and more often than not these installs (and re-installs) were rarely performed on a wiped disk. In 9x/Me there are the "mistery bytes" but they are in a different position than the disk signature and they only come into play if there is a collision with another disk: https://thestarman.pcministry.com/asm/mbr/mystery.htm and in any case fdisk should well be able to take care of them. jaclaz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images jaclaz