jaclaz

Do we really need to see on MSFN this survivalist/conspirationist/apocalyptic crap? <- this is a rhetoric question, the answer is NO. msfntor, it is already tiring to see all the meaningless, non techinical crap you post on this (supposedly technical) board every single §@ç#ing day, often many times each day, but this is too much. Mind you, you are perfectly free to insist on this as much as you want, but at least you now know how at least one MSFN user is fed up with this senseless garbage. jaclaz

You can try checking with procmon, very likely anything that runs in that moment is under \Sybase\SQL Anywhere 9\Win32\ or anyway \Sybase\ : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon jaclaz

So it is probably an issue with permissions/credentials. Runas or powershell probably will work, but cannot really say. Windows 10 has seemingly some additional (when compared to Vista/7) limitations on account control or permissions: https://www.digitalcitizen.life/run-as-admin/ or maybe elevate: https://code.kliu.org/misc/elevate/ or some similar third party command, the most "powerful" being RunAsTI: https://github.com/jschicht/RunAsTI But really no idea if they work on 10 and specifically on your executables. Also, check with which credentials is the service run in services.msc, maybe you can change them there, or use subinacl or this thingy here: https://www.coretechnologies.com/products/ServiceSecurityEditor/ jaclaz

Thanks, so you are using Romex Vsuite with the flag "Use OS invisible memory". Good to know. jaclaz

I mean, can you stop the service through the dbsvc tool? The tool should be able to list and detail the running instances and allow to stop them manually, presumably the mechanism is the same that the program uses internally. Depending on whether that mechanism works or not it is possible that the issue lies in the permissions/credentials under which the dbsvc or the program runs. jaclaz

So the issue is that it cannot be stopped? But can it be stopped manually? Do you have the dbsvc tool on that install? http://dev.cs.ovgu.de/db/sybase9/help/dbdaen9/00000604.htm Maybe you need (on Windows 10) end the task? https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/document/34532735/why-is-the-archiving-process-aborted-with-the-message-that-opened-projects-cannot-be-archived-although-all-the-files-in-project-are-closed-?dti=0&lc=en-IT jaclaz

Technically it is a OFM : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Orthodox_file_managers https://softpanorama.org/OFM/Standards/index.shtml Chapter 5: https://softpanorama.org/OFM/Paradigm/Ch05/total_commander.shtml jaclaz

Sybase is SAP since a lot of years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybase https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_Anywhere Version 9 should be 2003, long before signed/verified drivers (and services) became common, it is strange that Windows 10 even allowed you to install (and run) the service. Maybe it cannot be stopped because it doesn't run? (but if it doesn't run I don't think you can fix it, and newer releases - which are Commercial AFAIK - are likely not exchangeable). jaclaz

Yep, good , but you should also detail how you create the Z:\ volume in unused RAM (Imdisk, awealloc, Gavotte, whatever) for your report to be replicable/useful to other users. jaclaz

But does this guarantee that they are not communists? Computeruniverse is (from their about page): https://www.computeruniverse.net/en/page/cuinfo a German company with office in Friedrichsdorf, but founded in Bad Homburg and later moved in Friedberg, since 2006 became part of Burda Consumer Tech Group, so I would say "very" German, but that is just the shop. What you seem to be missing is that DeLock is a brand, not a manufacturer: https://www.delock.com/delock/index.html Essentially what they do is either find (good) existing products on the international market and brand them or find (again internationally) reliable manufacturers and have them produce with their brand particular items. The (sometimes a little, sometimes a lot) markup you pay for their products is mostly about their ability in choosing good products and testing them before reselling them under their brand (for the more common items) and for (AFAIK very good) support (and extended warranty on many items, declarations of conformity). Only to give you an example, do you believe this: https://www.delock.de/produkt/62966/merkmale.html?g=1449 to be very different from these: https://www.sybausa.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=933 http://www.iocrest.com/index.php?id=2162 jaclaz

Yep, that mock page has been on Dedoimedo since many years, the date is automatically updated to some 5 years in the future. The idea of that post is EXACTLY that of looking spammy. Whether it is funny or not is just a matter of opinions, but contains some good technical references, as an example "an example of a well-crafted socially-engineered email that is so convincing most people will fall for it": https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/email.html Apart from these humour things, another example here: https://www.dedoimedo.com/life/guide-trolling.html Dedoimedo is like the most reliable, unbiased and honest source for reviews of software and particularly Linux related ones, but has also a Windows section and many other ones . From its FAQs: https://www.dedoimedo.com/faq.html jaclaz

There are also good quality ones from Addonics: https://www.addonics.com/product/intro/31 but they are not German[1], they are from Taiwan, cannot say if they count as Chinese. jaclaz [1] in this context German should actually mean China or Taiwan made anyway but chosen and sold by Germans, example: https://www.delock.de/produkt/62510/merkmale.html?setLanguage=en (Made in Taiwan)

Short answer: No. Long answer: Maybe (very likely not yet, but hopefully soon). Coincidentally it was recently posted on reboot.pro about a newish boot manager/Windows OS loader that may (or may not) include a layer of BIOS compatibility mode via the SeaBIOS, JFYI, Quibble: http://reboot.pro/index.php?showtopic=22748 As said there, it seems like being yet very experimental and its main scope is different (booting current Windows on EFI with OS residing on a "foreign" filesystem - BTRFS) but from the very scarce and confusing description it sounds like it could work. Still it is the usual "compile as you please" nonsense of many open source projects [1] which limits the possibility to test to a limited number of people with the capabilities to setup a correct build environment and smooth out the (inevitable) quirks preventing a successful compiling[2]. jaclaz [1] the usual Rule being that if you need to compile it, it won't [2] maybe I am too much a pessimist on these, but failure to compile has been the usual outcome of *any* project I ever tried to compile in the last 20 years or so

Maybe we fell in a hysteresis loop of some kind. jaclaz

See reply on your other thread: https://msfn.org/board/topic/184704-help：please-list-some-softwares-or-tools-for-winpe/ jaclaz

No. In a PE you cannot (strictly speaking) "install" anything as the Registry is "volatile" in it, so anything you manage to "install" will be lost on reboot (and anything that needs a reboot won't ever work) besides PE's are "reduced" versions of the OS, so they typically miss a number of dependencies (files that are normally there on the full OS install but that were not included in the PE buid). So you can often run in a PE most "portable" programs (that need not an installation, though they may need some implied dependencies added) or (this is what PE builders such as Winbuilder or PEbakery) generally do) pre-install (or integrate) programs at build time. Since it is far from easy to make a successful PE build with integrated programs, you should - at least intially - look for already made and tested projects, such as (say) Win10PESE: https://win10se.cwcodes.net/ or (still say) MistyPE: http://mistyprojects.co.uk/documents/MistyPE/index.html jaclaz

No, this is about installing FROM a usb stick and it was born in XP times (when this was impossible), 14 (fourteen) years ago. Rufus, since several versions ago, is not (anymore) compatible with XP. With "modern" Windows you can have a "Windows to Go" install just fine (even if it is officially deprecated- why? - by Microsoft), see: http://reboot.pro/index.php?showtopic=22745 jaclaz

Maybe they do (nowadays) You replied on a 8 (eight) years old topic, Ventoy didn't exist at the time, and Yumi is not exactly aimed at this . jaclaz

I forgot to put a <sarcasm> tag on my last post, sorry. jaclaz

Yeah, sure, but HDD regenerator does so much more (at least in 60% of cases): http://www.dposoft.net/hdd.html jaclaz

Yep, but the aros .iso is ucs level 3 (default), and (from what I know) the ucs level is only within the Joliet supplemental description, shouldn't affect mounting, only (maybe) listing of files/directories: http://littlesvr.ca/isomaster/resources/JolietSpecification.html#recording jaclaz

Spinrite may (or may not) be the best program around, but in any cases it has now become very, very outdated. The current version, 6.0 is now around 18 years old, and there are many reports (even on its Wikipedia page): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpinRite about issues with some newer BIOS/Firmware and "large" disks (which may even mean larger than 128 GB ones in some cases). In any case, whatever "proprietary methods" it uses (maybe) it is improbable that those methods are fully compatible/suitable to the new hard disk technologies that in the meantime have been used in the manufacturing of hard disks, so it either reverts to using "normal methods" when it finds something new or it risks to do more damage than good. All in all, using it (today) on a disk manufactured in the last 15-18 years, even if one manages to access large disks with it, is risky, while its use could still be attempted as a last resort (say in attempting to recover data that any more recent tool cannot) it isn't (IMHO) advisable to use it for "maintenance" tasks (such as this disk refreshing) Diskfresh (as well not particularly current, last version is seemingly 2013) on the other hand seems like a "normal" program (i.e. not using any particular proprietary method) so it should work just fine on more modern hard disks as it likely only uses conventional read/write procedures. It remains a mistery (to me) why, if this disk refreshing is so useful/advised by "experts", only two dedicated programs (for Dos/Windows) exist that perform this disk refreshing. The badblocks program (Linux) in the read-write test mode makes *something more* (from what I can understand): 1) it reads the contents of a given amount of blocks from hard disks and caches them 2) it writes to the blocks a "random" pattern 3) it verifies that the pattern has been written correctly 4) it writes back the cached contents 5) it verifies that the cached contents have been written correctly so it seems like it will be much slower (three reads/two writes), though, if we follow the line of reasoning about the need of bytes on hard disk needing to be "exercised" (which personally I consider being a form of voodoo) it would actually make sense to test the random pattern. Besides, like many (Linux but not only) command line tools there is the risk to issue by mistake a destructive command. Once re-said that (in my opinion) it makes no sense to "refresh" data on disk, a hypothetical suitable procedure is more like: 1) procure a (new) disk bigger than the original 2) make a RAW (dd-like) copy of the original on the larger disk 3) calculate the checksums of both the original and of the dd-copy and verify that the checksums are the same 4) dd back the image on the original 5) re-calculate the checksum of newly written "original" and verify it is still the same 6) keep the RAW image on the new disk as a further backup This will take LOTS of time on today's large hard disks and put a lot of stress on the two hard disks involved, so you'd better have a setup where the hard disks are properly cooled (fan pointing to them directly). jaclaz

OT (but not much) I sleep on the left side of the bed and always put down the left feet first when I get up. I started this in the early 1960's and so far has proved very effective. For a small period of time in the late 1980's I had to sleep on the right side (and thus had to put down my right foot first) and my laptop hard disk suddenly started developing bad sectors. I am not saying the two are connected, still as soon as I was able to re-arrange the bedroom and got back to good ol' left foot first those disk errors stopped. To be fair, maybe it was due to the new laptop I bought at the time, though since then I had many laptops and their disks never started developing bad sectors again[1] . jaclaz [1] there was an exception in late 1993 (or maybe it was early 1994?) when I found 3 (three) bad sectors on a Compaq laptop hard disk (if I recall correctly it was a Seagate 120 Mb in size)

It is not like you have thousands of disks stored horizontally and thousands of disks stored vertically and you found a substantial difference in their lifetime that can be connected to their storage spacial orientation (i.e. independent from the various drives make, model and year of manufacture), for all we know (say) Seagate's from 2007 are better stored vertical whilst WD's from 2006 are better stored horizontally. What you offer (like any of us can only do) is some anecdotal, very limited, data, I am very happy that you have very old hard disks still working (horizontally) and that you keep an eye on their S.M.A.R.T. values, but for all we know this may have nothing connected to the disks longevity, it could well be that they are properly cooled, that you have good air where they are kept/used, that your PSU's are very good, we cannot know for sure. jaclaz

Yep, that GUID decodes to uuid -d 72c19bc3-c024-11ed-ad1e-806e6f6e6963 encode: STR: 72c19bc3-c024-11ed-ad1e-806e6f6e6963 SIV: 152537264095622615413589416556765276515 decode: variant: DCE 1.1, ISO/IEC 11578:1996 version: 1 (time and node based) content: time: 2023-03-11 15:50:29.500000.3 UTC clock: 11550 (usually random) node: [redacted] so it definitely has been recreated when you originally posted about it. But what are the contents of that key in the Registry under MountedDevices? If in regedit you double click on the key it should open a pop-up window with a title *like* "Modify binary data" that may contain something readable, on the left side you will see the actual bytes hex values, on the right side how they render as ASCII, since the values in that section are usually Unicode you will see each letter separated by a dot, but it should be readable. The drivecleanup tool is not particularly difficult to use. You open a command prompt, navigate to where the porgram is, then you issue the command: drivecleanup -t and it will list all the devices it finds "orphaned". If your "ghost device" is among them, you re-run it as: drivecleanup and it will cleanup the entries listed before. According to the docs, it checks these Registry paths: so, if you cannot find your ghost device GUID in those, it won't do anything. jaclaz