jaclaz

Update: Seemingly I was not "blocked"[1] by legacyfan, it was a misunderstanding, the "him" was "you" (D.Draker), I am told that "you" are "blocked"[1] by legacyfan. jaclaz [1] whatever "blocked" means, I am still failing to understand what it does and how you can "block" (or "unblock") an user on this forum

It seems to me like a re-post of the one you posted here about Nintendo closing down (which BTW is NOT a joke and IS NOT funny): Why don't you change the title of this thread (and of the one senselessly duplicated on Wincert) to something more accurate (the general idea is that a topic title should reflect the content of the topic), like (only ideas): "Whatever crosses my mind (by legacyfan)" or "What if a technical forum was Twitter (by legacyfan)" jaclaz

About reboot.pro, you need some patience, I just got a message from Nuno, he is migrating the board to a new machine since the old one had issues and *for some reasons* it was made inaccessible by the provider. I believe it will take a few days, maybe a little more, as the migrating process (from remote) is not "easy-peasy". jaclaz

1. should install normally 2. you don't, even 2007 is tricky: https://msfn.org/board/topic/163488-office-2007-in-windows-2000/ jaclaz

"make the L and the F capital" is too long .... jaclaz

Am I blocked by legacyfan? Good , didn't even know it was a thing on the forum, I had this feeling that some people takes Msfn as Twitter or Facebook ... jaclaz

What do you mean? Enable AutoLogon? Here (pdf): https://www.hmisource.com/otasuke/files/appnotes/APNT1090.pdf jaclaz

A most peculiar use of "they", interesting. jaclaz

You mean without the daily senseless bickering on actual technical topics and the meaningless wishful thinking and do-goodism non-technical topics that permeated the board lately? It was once like that, good times ... jaclaz

Yes and no. At the time Steve6375 did a lot of tests and reported results on reboot.pro (which right now is offline ): reboot.pro/topic/16783-rmprepusb-faster-fat32-write-access-on-flash-memory-drives/ There is/was some further minor improvements with - if I recall correctly - aligning the first data cluster past the volume label, and then there is a possible advantage depending on the actual "page size" of the flash memory/controller. In any case this only affects (noticeably) "slow" media such as USB sticks, for those Steve made the provision in RMPREPUSB: https://rmprepusb.blogspot.com/2014/06/increase-speed-of-your-sd-card-or-flash.html jaclaz

Another option (easy if it works) would be to use RMPREPUSB: https://rmprepusb.com/tutorials/030-how-to-install-xp-onto-a-hard-disk-from-an-xp-iso-on-a-bootable-usb-drive/ or - even easier (once you get the hang of it) - Easy2boot: https://easy2boot.xyz/ Personally I would first try the Tutorial #30 with RMPREPUSB, or, if you can make a PE v.3, tutorial #82: https://rmprepusb.com/tutorials/082-install-xp-to-hard-disk-from-isos-using-winpe-v3/ jaclaz

That is a generic puff piece pushing a registry cleaner. Totally not useful. jaclaz

The STOP error may well be an issue with the actual CD or DVD burn, with modern, high speed CD/DVD burners it is not unheard of burned discs difficult to read on old readers. The flash drive issue is more likely to be connected to the way you partitioned/formatted it and in any case you cannot normally/easily use a CD/ISO image from a stick, and creating a stick capable of installing XP is complex. There are a few tools for that, you should try first thing WinSetupFromUsb: https://msfn.org/board/topic/120444-how-to-install-windows-from-usb-winsetupfromusb-with-gui/ but check other topics here: https://msfn.org/board/forum/157-install-windows-from-usb/ particularly this tool here: https://msfn.org/board/topic/149612-winntsetup-v526-53-beta-4/ but cannot say if current version is still XP compatible. jaclaz

It is a good idea (always) to have the OS stop (and not reboot) on BSOD's (for next time): HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\CrashControl Autireboot (set it to 0 to prevent rebooting) Usually (but not always) minidump is enabled, so the nifty Nirsoft tool might be able to catch that (past) BSOD, to check if the minidump is enabled: https://blog.nirsoft.net/2010/07/27/how-to-configure-windows-to-create-minidump-files-on-bsod/ jaclaz

No idea about the BSOD after scandisk/Chkdsk, without a known STOP ERROR it could be *anything*. The Merge-Ide is "safe" in the sense that the only thing that does is to restore the "Standardl" Microsoft PCI/ATA controller driver (the one that is default when you install without any particular disk controller driver), it may (or it may not) have helped, but surely it didn't cause the BSOD in itself as by the time you rebooted and (auto) ran chkdsk it must have been already been replaced by the LSI driver. It could also have been a random "glitch in the matrix", or it could be that *for whatever reasons* one of the volumes was mounted read only and chkdsk needed instead to change something on it I think the only thing you can do is to make an image of the install volume (as a way back in case of issues) and see if the scandisk or chkdsk creates the issue again, as I see it chkdsk is a vital part of a Windows install, and you should not consider the install "stable" until you are sure that it works normally, jaclaz

JFYI, and in case of need, there is a tool to edit offline registry files "directly" (without importing the hive(s) in Regedit): https://labalec.fr/erwan/?cat=95 Reboot.pro is down, unfortunately, but there is a good guide for it here: http://mistyprojects.co.uk/documents/offlinereg/offlinereg.htm jaclaz

Try this: https://www.brighthub.com/multimedia/audio/articles/95590/ Anyway the software home page is: https://www.nch.com.au/scribe/ but, it is ANOTHER kind of software from what the OP asked for: Express Scribe Transcription Software Foot Pedal Controlled Digital Transcription Audio Player LegacyFan, if you were a greengrocer and someone asks you a lemon, you can't usually give them two cucumbers instead . jaclaz

Still : https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/enthusiast and punctuation/capitalization would IMHO need a check or two. jaclaz

Good start, keep 'em coming. But please watch the typos, it is really a pity when the reader fails to appreciate the contents because he/she is distracted by them, I counted at least 5 issues in: jaclaz

I see, it is a long term plan, halfway by Easter and the other halfway hopefully by Christmas 2023 Do post here every time you add something, it is important to document each step, so that we might later be able to make a documentary on "the making of". jaclaz

Viewing WHAT? The Few Things being ANY meaningful content. But please do keep up posted on the progress. jaclaz

AFAIK the Surface Go is a Class-3 UEFI: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-8.1-and-8/hh824898(v=win.10)?redirectedfrom=MSDN And - still AFAIK - UefiSeven or similar is needed on such hardware: https://www.sevenforums.com/installation-setup/426914-installing-win-7-pro-sp1-uefi-class-3-gen-10-laptop.html https://github.com/manatails/uefiseven I consider that "a trick". jaclaz

Yes, it seems like it is listed in diskpart but invisible in disk manager, also in later Windows versions see the image here: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/a0a64818-6150-40b4-b5b3-915eb8fe31c9/msr-reserved-partition-does-not-appear-in-disk-management-nor-in-my-backup-program?forum=w8itproinstall jaclaz

There are two base issues: #1 the Surface Go is a UEFI only machine, as such has no BIOS (or CSM) whilst Windows 7 has not built-in proper support for UEFI booting, this can usually worked around using a later Windows OS bootloader and a couple of tricks #2 if I recall correctly (but I may well be wrong) the Surface has UEFI GOP video which adds an additional problem, there is (right now the whole board is down, unfortunately) thread on reboot.pro about a possible way to force a Windows 7 to use a GOP driver through an extremely risky procedure (and BTW I cannot remember if it was a generic solution or specific to some particular hardware) AND a third one: #3 the hardware of a Surface (and particularly of the Go type) will need device drivers that simply do not exist for Windows 7 So, in theory everything is possible, but the issue is not "jailbreaking" (that usually means to expose existing functionalities that are locked down or inaccessible), one would need to have a whole replacement firmware AND all the needed drivers, as a parallel example you cannot install a *common* Linux distro on it, you need particular files: https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface because the Microsoft hardware on the Surface has its own peculiarities. jaclaz

It works on XP as well, at least on the 32 bit version. jaclaz