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Maybe devcon? JFYI, and as a side note, devcon is now open source and re-distributable: http://reboot.pro/topic/15252-picoxp/page-4#entry196380 Or maybe additionally RunasTI is needed to become Trusted Installer... jaclaz

You mean something *like* this? http://eshop.sintech.cn/3x5cm-msata-adapter-as-3x7cm-mini-pcie-sata-ssd-p-1036.html http://www.ebay.com/itm/SINTECH-3x5cm-mSATA-adapter-as-3x7cm-mini-PCI-e-SATA-SSD-4-ASUS-EeePC-901-900A-/321532154310 More or less it is a couple of lines exchanged and a couple capacitors. This is the "reverse" of it (just for reference): http://hackaday.com/2010/12/18/making-msata-work-with-mini-pci-express/ Should work, but no guarantee of course. jaclaz

I would say that a good reason for having used the command line version of Photorec is that ONLY the command line version exists. Happy you made it. jaclaz

Well, you need to replace also the NTLDR with an XP one, if you use the XP "custom" NTDETECT.COM, I believe. jaclaz

Well, you have DMDE, more or less is the best thing you can have for free. Though in this particular case - maybe - Photorec would be more suitable as a direct carving solution. In any case you can try (of course AFTER having made a dd image - or better two - and working on one of the images), to use "negative logic". I.e. you fill each and every non-deleted files with 00's and then carve the image, when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth . Please note how there is a BIG difference between a .doc and a .docx file: .doc is a (proprietary) binary format .docx is a ZIP archive containing a number of .xml files usually recovering at least the text from a partial .docx file is easier than from a .doc, simply because there are many tools capable of recovering or extracting contents form a partial or corrupted .zip file. jaclaz

Actually it is a terrible idea, that site is (clearly) a scam. It is a generic text filled up with technobabbling that invariably delivers you he same (crappy) repair software, examples: http://threadposts.org/question/517069/EMET-5-5-fails-to-load-on-reboot-with-some-group-policy-editor-settings.html Actually being "winwiki.org": http://winwiki.org/outlook-express/ It also covers the Internet Explorer 10 zing error http://winwiki.org/internet-explorer-10-freezing/ jaclaz

Just in case/FYI, a new kid on the block: http://reboot.pro/topic/21211-powerrun-v10-run-as-trustedinstaller/ jaclaz

Yes, definitely and undoubtedly. Point might be if such abrasiveness is justified in the context ... jaclaz

Hmmm, IMHO essentially the reason why the whole Aeroglass stuff exists is because the good MS guys decided to DEPRIVE their customers of choices, it would be - more than ironic - tragic that a tool useful to re-acquire a certain degree of freedom decides to stop supporting a part (even if minor) of its customers, effectively depriving them AGAIN of that re-acquired freedom of choices ... jaclaz

A new kid on the block (command line) for Linux and Windows (and MacOsX) UNtested by me: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep jaclaz

I didn't add anything, I simply quoted the example on the page I pointed you to: http://www.robvanderwoude.com/datetimentparse.php (which is something that you should have already found ) Of course you should adapt the example to your specific usage . jaclaz

Timely. jaclaz

Well, having (such a beautiful thing as) a Skype account AND NOT using it is suspicious activity ... jaclaz

... lighting was already a pretty much useless thing, the concept has been brought to the extreme https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/20/why-why-why-headdesk/ Hard to disagree with the conclusion ... jaclaz

Sure , you are parsing incorrectly the result of time. Managing dates and time in batch needs some attention, and - like always - you shouldn't invent things before having fully appreciated "previous art", go through this: http://www.robvanderwoude.com/datetime.php http://www.robvanderwoude.com/datetimentparse.php If you are using 24h clock but your local does not provide a leading 0, but rather a space: and - AGAIN - DO NOT use brackets in the names of files, before or later you will be bitten by that, if you really want to use brackets, use square ones [] or curly ones {} (which are not a "special" character in batch). jaclaz

Well if you use UEFI-CSM it is not UEFI but BIOS and everything is "normal", nothing actually like a "install W2K in UEFI", just a "plain" "install W2K in BIOS (provided by UEFI CSM)". You might be interested in booting from a GPT style disk from BIOS: http://reboot.pro/topic/19516-hack-bootmgr-to-boot-windows-in-bios-to-gpt/ without using a hybrid MBR, some of the techniques discussed there might work for a RAW (or "static" VHD), but it has to be seen if suitable drivers (Firadisk or WinVblock) actually work or can be made to work in 2K (or if there is some other driver, of the "miniport" kind that can be modified to hook the grub4dos mapping), otherwise your only possibility is that of a Hybrid MBR and it has to be seen (AFAIK noone tested it) if Windows 10 will "like" that or use a MBR style disk. jaclaz

If SHA1 matches it is fine. Both MD5 and SHA1 were provided as - while most hashing tools compute BOTH MD5 and SHA1 - some will only compute MD5 or only SHA1. Cannot say about the other question, I don't recall any particular "technical" version, AFAIK they are all the same. jaclaz

It should be OK, BUT (you never know) check the hash(es) of the downloaded .iso: en_windows_7_professional_with_sp1_x64_dvd_u_676939.iso aka X17-59186.iso should be: MD5: ed15956fe33c13642a6d2cb2c7aa9749 SHA1: 0bcfc54019ea175b1ee51f6d2b207a3d14dd2b58 In any case, ignore the date you see, that should be a "standard" iso as it was available on Digital River (or on MSDN or Technet) with just SP1 integrated. See also: https://www.reddit.com/r/windows/comments/4xlzuq/is_this_a_legitimate_link_for_windows_7/ jaclaz

And now ... http://inkjet411.com/?page_id=5769 http://www.myce.com/news/hp-pre-programmed-failure-date-unofficial-non-hp-ink-cartridges-printers-80457/ ... we have printer software updates that "brick" the printer if it is using non-original cartridges. jaclaz

Can they? ALL of them? I don't want to put you down in any way, but you make it sound "easy" something that if not impossible will be very, very difficult. About booting Windows 2000 in EFI, it will be interesting to see how you will manage it (VHD images and/or MBR style disks do not replace BIOS calls/services ... ). I would say something like the (AFAIK never released, possibly only vapourware) Bambios would be needed: http://www.osxbook.com/book/bonus/misc/legacyboot/ But I am unaware of the existence of similar projects jaclaz

SET Now=%TIME% set HM=%Now:~0,2%.%now:~3,2% SET SomeTimeAgo=%HM% echo (%HM%) --produces--> (08.30) imagine here that a few minutes elapse echo (%SomeTimeAgo%) --STILL produces--> (08.30) as a general rule, DO NOT use . (dots) or () (brackets) in file names and - possibly - avoid also using spaces in them 2016_08_16-0830-FLAMENT.rar is perfectly human readable as well and easier to parse programmatically, particurarly in batch. jaclaz

Italy must be seen as a country of players, since they offer a XBOX One as a bundle, instead: https://www.microsoftstore.com/store/mseea/it_IT/home BUT it is only valid for the 256 GB/Intel Core i5 - 8 GB di RAM (for a mere 1500€ you get the XBOX One included), the other versions have no such bundle. jaclaz

Surely a 6.0.2600.5512 version looks "queer", but should be "legit". There are a lot of variables that may affect which version of a .dll a program uses, including SP level, KB updates, Internet Explorer version and more or less *what not*. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh298349(v=vs.85).aspx Compare also with an archived version of the same page (just to show how much information MS is retracting from availability): https://web.archive.org/web/20140424001851/http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh298349(v=vs.85).aspx The (flawed BTW) way WinSxS attempts to solve DLL Hell is vey likely part of the reason. jaclaz

It seems to me like the usual FUD. Before Windows XP went out of support, etc. there have been years of the same things, namely right after Vista release, and then again after Windows 7 release (surprisingly not so much in occasion of 8 release), but at the time most were pessimistic previsions or mere fanboyism for the new, improved Windows OS, now that the years have passed, statements like: should be proved, I mean, the bad guys had all the time in the world to prepare and execute terrible attacks against this poor OS, the 10% or so of computers around the world still using it [1] should have been already largely compromised, bringing to its knees a not-so-small part of the economy and of the Internet. Still, it didn't happen (yet), maybe the bad guys have a code of honour that prevents them from taking advantage of those hundreds of vulnerabilities because of respect for the old, aging OS, cannot say, but still it didn't happen in these two years since April 2014. The good Palemoon guys may have all the reasons (like very reduced user base, more complex code testing, less bug reports and what not) and certainly have all the rights to stop maintaining compatibility with XP, of course, but there is no real reason to denigrate the poor ol'thing. jaclaz [1] approximate and meant to represent those actually connected to the Internet and browsing, so that NetMarketShare could count them

Yep; I once did the second. I had an external USB "slim" floppy drive with a bad mechanics but good interface (and quite a few salvaged "normal" internal floppy drives + an unused external USB hard disk case "full height" with a fried power supply) and casually found (while buying some other things) an (obviously el-cheapo ) adapter *like* this one: http://www.ebay.it/itm/Slim-Floppy-Adapter-34-polig-Supermicro-SFBP512-/311292337238?hash=item487a781c56:g:tXkAAOSwhkRWfYX0 (that is intended to be used "reversed") and manged to put together (half-@§§edly as always) an external USB floppy full size. But really, buying a new "slim" external USB floppy drive would be more convenient. jaclaz