jaclaz

#1 there are special tools (combs) that can be replaced by some medicine blister (foil pill container) in some cases: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIPZtJyrVPw the real issue is with multi-platter disks, you need to keep them exactly as they are, as well there are special tools/clamps for that. #2 Curiously enough, that applied to very old drives, then for several years boards were exchangeable, then again it returned the need to transplant the chip because of the so-called adaptive data (p-list and g-list ,mainly, but not only) or (with tools like the Pc-3000) it is possible to dump the contents of a chip and re-program the one on the new board. jaclaz

... "a strange game" in which "the only winning move is not to play." jaclaz

I forgot to list in my previous post the game where people post truisms, my bad, though it may well belong to the "something else" category. Next one will likely be about RIS installation ... jaclaz

A blue screen is blue, usually it comes with some white text on it, including a STOP code, see example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_screen_of_death#/media/File:Windows_XP_BSOD.png Besides, WinSetupFromUSB behaviour might depend on the settings you chose. The fact that you tried other tools obtaining similar failures leads me to think that there may be issues with the source, like some driver (missing or "wrong"). jaclaz

Which game is this? The one where other users suggest something and you reply saying "Yeah, I tried that but it doesn't work." and that goes on for several posts until it ends nowhere or the one where you post the EXACT description of your hardware, the EXACT description of what tool/method/whatever you tried using to install XP from USB AND the EXACT description of the error(s)/issue(s) you had and for which you may receive (hopefully) some advice or something else? jaclaz

is ETA in the morning or in the afternoon? jaclaz

I am not following this topic. I access MSFN (which BTW was a technical board with a particular accent on MS operating systems) and click on the Activity button to see what happened since my previous visit, expecting to see relevant posts Before, I could see a number of new posts more or less related to the board scope. Now, I have to scroil/load more several times to find, among all the noise (largely generated by a handful of people), the same content. Since you are one of the people that is using the board as a news aggregator, or news feed, or twitter, or whatever, I am telling you. Your continuous posting of these links to (IMHO largely crappy) random articles makes me waste my time. You can of course continue posting them, but now you know. jaclaz

Paraphrasing: >You should stop with this posting links to random crap ...you are an intelligent person, so you know it does NOTHING but waste or "fill" your time.... Actually it does ALSO clutter the "Activity" results, and waste other people's time too. jaclaz

Sure, but you need to check at a time where your external HD is connected. It is "queer" that a volume or partition remains "sticky" in the defrag tool (because it actually exists or existed on the external hard disk) even once the external hard disk has been disconnected, but surely it would be much more "queer" if this volume or partition never existed. I don't know, but maybe it could be connected to the "Schedule" settings of the defrag tool, I would expect that in some cases it can happen that a volume is scheduled for a periodical defrag (at a time when it is connected) and *somehow* the item remains sticky. Check this thread here, ignore the first reply, open other replies and go to page 2, look for the reply by MikhoulLhaboul https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/strange-volume-listed-by-disk-defrag/00ea7a77-12b7-450b-a6b7-94dae520bcdd he suggests something similar. You may want to try toggling disk defragmenter schedule on and off. jaclaz

In disk manager a small volume is often difficult to see, there is an option to represent the disk partitions all the same length as bars, independent from their size. What you are seeing is probably a volume to which a drive letter has not been assigned (this may be "normal" or an issue of some kind). You can run (in a cmd window) mountvol to check which letters are assigned to which volumes. As well, from command line, diskpart will be able to show you where (to which disk it belongs) that volume. jaclaz

Maybe then the previous scramdisk: https://web.archive.org/web/20080123131324/http://www.samsimpson.com/cryptography/scramdisk/ jaclaz

Alchemy is the most promising approach: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy jaclaz

I still believe (maybe wrongly) that the code for a "filedisk" driver will be very different from a "ramdisk" one. In any case the "base" should be a driver for which the source code - besides being available - is also free to use/modify, besides the mentioned ones, there is the one by rudolph loew that the family kindly released after his death: https://rloewelectronics.com/ https://rloewelectronics.com/distribute/RAMDISK/ jaclaz

Yep, OP should try Adaptec UDF Reader Driver, it should still be available: https://www.techspot.com/drivers/driver/file/information/1018/ jaclaz

Forget about Powershell, evidently the Windows 7 doesn't have that cmdlet. Check the Registry, and use regedit to change if needed, search on that page for: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters but SMB is enabled by default, unless you disabled it. It is more probable that you have something else mis-configured in file sharing settings, check: https://www.stratospherix.com/support/access-files-on-windows7-from-your-ipad.php and: https://www.wikihow.com/Access-a-Shared-Folder-on-an-iPhone-or-iPad jaclaz

The differences may be due (indirectly) to the sizes of the images, with small disks (or images) it often happens that different programs or BIOSes or OSes attribute a different geometry or calculate differently the geometry, and then similarly both the partitioning and formatting processes may result in differently sized voiumes. jaclaz

No, maybe that applies to (large) corporate environment, in smaller ones (while there could still exist the odd old database based program) the (say) invoice must be made with a new format (that the old program doesn't support) and must be loaded to a given website (that possibly only supports a given browser, in a recent version), then you need to access another government connected website (that supports another browser) and the bank (which has been updated to some new dashboard, that you need not but that as well requires a "current" browser). jaclaz

Poor little gamers, I feel for them, I cannot imagine how tough it could be for them living without being able to play modern games. Still I am more concerned by all the small (and large) offices and businesses that actually need to update OS and programs continuously to be able to do those minor, trifling, things, like calculating and paying wages and taxes, creating and paying invoices, dealing with Law requirements, etc.. jaclaz

Sure, grub4dos mapping is the easiest/most convenient, though of course it has the limitation of needing to either reboot or know before booting that you will need to mount the image. Being essentiially a plain BIOS mapping it surely works reliably in DOS, under the Win9x GUI I would be anyway careful. I don't think that anyone is going (today) to attempt writing a driver/program for DOS/Win9x of such complexity. I believe that one of the reasons why there aren't as many - please read as "none" - such programs/drivers for Win95 while there are (were) quite a few for NT and 2K is due to the lack of some handy sub-systems/cpmponents. It is more likely that some of the good people working on FreeDOS may create something (for DOS/FreeDOS), more like srdisk or XMSdisk, but for filedisk mounting as opposed to ramdisk. At least good ol' SHSUFDRV: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/disk/shsufdrv/ http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/disk/shsufdrv/fdrv-3.txt is fine with DOS and WIn 3.x, but not with Win9x. jaclaz EDIT: Before I forget, check also this: http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA013937/editdisk/index_e.html (again not what you asked for but maybe useful)

Not what you asked for, but older versions of Diskinternals Linuxreader *should* run on 9x (at least there is a .vxd in version 2.0). It allows mounting disk images and save files from them (read only access), but no drive letter. jaclaz

Good morning, y'all. jaclaz

@legacyfan Was it really needed to revive a 2018 "Introduce yourself" topic (BTW by someone that in the meantime unsubscribed - the Guest in his name means that he is not a member anymore)? @XPerceniol and @msfntor Please, do check dates of posts AND context when replying, I can understand how you have this urge to exchange niceties at every possible occasion, but maybe the handful of topics on which you already do this daily are enough? jaclaz

Yep, from what I can understand the IGN in ignrando: https://geoservices.ign.fr/ignrando is the national geographic institute, not a company, but rather (directly or indirectly) a department of the government, I don't think they would do anything based on a single complain (nor, for that matters, on many complains ). jaclaz

What would you expect? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079470/quotes/qt0471984 jaclaz

Now that reboot.pro is online again, here is the thread about GOP hardware and windows 7: http://reboot.pro/index.php?showtopic=21108 Maybe useful, maybe not. jaclaz