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I will try again. The error about the missing operating system is a sign of (software) corruption of one or more "vital" sectors , that can happen on a perfectly working disk (hardware). The error at 2% in TESTDISK analyzing the disk is INSTEAD a sign of actual corruption of one or more physical sectors (hardware). While you can usually repair software issues by booting an alternate OS, you CANNOT repair a hardware issue. Additionally attempting a software repair of a hardware error on a disk may make matter WORSE. You have ONLY one option (short of consulting a data recovery specialist) attempt to salvage what data can be recovered from the disk (provided that the data is needed/worth something). If you have a valid backup of the data (or the data has no value) you can of course play with that hard disk whichever way you see fit. I don't see why *any* 2.5" SSD should not fit/be incompatible, it is a fairly common and recent machine with a SATA port, what is your doubt? jaclaz

Unless I am mistaken (which is very possible as the 48 bit LBA is so 2000ish ) the "normal" 9x files (without any patch or change) do work normally for volumes on larger than 128 Gb disks as long as the volume is entirely within the first 128 Gb of the disk. Since the OP has several partitions, roughly 30 Gb each, those should work (if formatted FAT 16 or 32) normally, while it is possible that the NTFS driver adds some checks/whatever... jaclaz

Well, there is not a "best" way, there are choices to be made. I like "flat", "simple" approaches, but the one suggested by NoelC in your duplicated thread: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/173906-backing-up-2-computers-one-with-win7-one-with-win-81/ is good as well, particularly if you want to deal with it only through Windows 7 or later. I can make no head or tail of these sentences: 500+800+800> 2000 Just post a copy of the MBR (assuming your disk is MBR and that you made all primary partitions) or run GDISK (or correspondent) and post the result of the p option if it is a GPT: http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/walkthrough.html When talking of partitions, you can choose between using sectors or bytes, Tb or Gb, and even Mb, are "vague" you never know if they are metric or binary (i.e. Gb vs. Gib) or how they are rounded (or truincated). jaclaz

Well, since the stupid google wants me to have a google id in order to access the stupid google play (android), I do have one, and since google asked me to provide Name and Surname I managed to have one in the form of NameAndSurnameXXX (as the plainer Name And Surname was already taken by a faster peep). jaclaz

Don't forget: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/all-your-base-are-belong-to-us Though we shouldn't be worried by the machines getting self awareness as ... jaclaz

Try using a fully qualified PATH (and not just the filename) to the directory where the install.wim is for the -source: value. I.e. (example given in post #1) jaclaz

Well, you seem like attempting to use grub4dos without having a basic understanding of the mechanism underlying. The mapping to (hd32) is not a "one-size-fits-all" solution, it may - at the most - be a "one-size-fits-most" one. Right now Reboot.pro (which is the officially unofficial Western support board for grub4dos) is down or having "intermittent access" due to some network/server problem, but you can check temporarily these two via Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20150318100434/http://reboot.pro/topic/8944-boot-any-iso-image-or-boot-all-iso-images/ https://web.archive.org/web/20130120142205/http://reboot.pro/topic/5041-grub4dos-iso-images-and-hd32-or-0xff-mapping/ If the access is restored the links are: http://reboot.pro/topic/8944- http://reboot.pro/topic/5041- and the guide here is OK: http://diddy.boot-land.net/grub4dos/Grub4dos.htm In order to get senceful assistance, you need to post your current menu.lst and the EXACT list of the .iso's you are trying to boot (if they are "standard") and the EXACT, DETAILED way the "custom .iso is built/created. A number of "common" .iso's are supported but for some less common ones "special" tricks may be needed (or in some cases it could even be impossible to boot them as .iso and you will need to setup their contents "flat" or extract some bootloader, etc.) . Additionally you want to become practical with the guide in the part that explains basic and command line usage in grub4dos. http://diddy.boot-land.net/grub4dos/files/basics.htm http://diddy.boot-land.net/grub4dos/files/cli.htm A menu.lst is more than anything else a kind of "batch file", just like you would do when putting together a batch script, you NEED to test sequences of commands on the command line and only once you have succeeded make them into the batch (or the menu.lst) as this way you get the grub4dos feedback or error for each command. Also please state the EXACT version of grub4dos you are using, or get a fairly recent one, if you used RMPREPUSB, the version of grub4dos contained in it, though if I recall correctly it is a slightly modified one, is OK. jaclaz

Maybe in this case you want to "clone" the partitions of the two hard disks into corresponding volumes on the huge 2 Tb "backup" and then periodically "sync them". You are well within the MBR "style" limits, so there are not any of the (BTW perfectly solvable) possible complications of GPT to be taken into account. Expecially if you (or your wife) are not going to re-partition the devices' hard disks, this would probably be the most simple approach and there are several Windows tools that can be used to perform the periodical "syncing" (since you are a Linux guy, think of rsync), the advantage of this approach is that should the need arise these backups may double as "bare metal restore". How are the current hard disks partitioned? Are you going to create the new disk layout from Windows or from Linux? jaclaz

Well, but that use of y'all sounds very unlike the original use of the thou-ye, as still used in other languages, which is a form of respect and courtesy, the whole point of lei, voi (Italian) Vous (French) Usted (Spanish) and Sie (German) is not about it being a plural, but rather a polite singular. @dencorso "Il tuo account, bello" would be so fun as to be even acceptable, at least to people with some sense of humour, but it would carry the gender issue, as "bello" would be implying that the use of the PC is reserved to males only, and the Italian parliament would swiftly approve a Law that prohibits that or imposes that no less than 50% of systems should be shipped with "Il tuo account, bella", until another party would manage to vote another Law to mitigate the risk that this could cause a gender identity crisis to minors of the other sex happening to read that accidentally, and after a couple years during which noone will respect either Law, a third one will be issued, publicized as been derived by the application of an EU norm (which either doesn't exist or says an altogether different thing), which will make screensavers compulsory with a kick in time of no more than 30 seconds from last HID activity, and soon afterwards a fourth Law will come giving six month of time to the Ministry of Culture to create a list of approved screensavers, and since the list won't obviously be ready for at least three years, an urgent temporary decree will be made by the Government to make everyone, until the Ministry list is approved, switch off the devices screen (or the device altogether) within "no more than double the time established by Article 3 bis of the Law 01/01/2016 N.184 in all occasions when a minor is believed to be around the device in a radius smaller than the limit established by Royal Decree 18/06/1937 N.741 as modified by Law 17/11/1971 N°1135 as amended". The good Italians will thus have five more Laws to completely ignore , just like the several tens of thousands they already manage to ignore peacefully. No, all in all, not a good idea . jaclaz

Sure that could be a random number explanation as good as any other one, but IMHO you are confusing "pieces of malware" with "number of vulnerabilities" and with "number of incidents" (as much as the good MS guys and a lot of other people around confuse vulnerabilities with security). There may be tens, hundreds or thousands of "pieces of malware" making use of a same, single vulnerability. There may be tens, hundreds or thousands of "incidents" that could be related to a same, single vulnerability (actually to the corresponding exploit). On the other hands there may be tens or hundreds (possibly even thousands) of vulnerabilities for which an exploit is not practically doable or for which there is not a viable exploit and tens or hundreds of vulnerabilities for which an exploit exists but that never causes an incident. More loosely a number of vulnerabilities in itself is a sterile number. Vulnerabilities are (largely) theoretical, in the sense that very often they need such a complex set of concurrent settings/setups to be not statistically sound. Let's say that I am writing a malware of some kind, and I discovered a brand new vulnerability. The vulnerability needs (say) that: a user runs Windows XP SP3his/her motherboard is an Asrock xyz modelthe machine has more than 4 Gb RAMthe NIC MAC begins with 00:E0:4C (i.e. an additional RealTek network card is in the system)and when a specially forged document (let's say an animated GIF) is accessed on a Friday between 00:01 and 00:09 GMT I can run a payload of some kind, ONLY IF the user is using Internet Explorer 7.0 AND he is logged in as Administrator. It is clear that if the user runs as "normal user" the vulnerability is not anymore a vulnerability, but also if anyone of the other conditions are not met, so that the number and complexity of the other needed conditions makes it so improbable that my evil plan has any actual chance of success that even if all the world users would run as Administrator I will never be able to cause any incident by using that vulnerability. Yet it would be counted among the 90% of vulnerabilities "fixed" by running as "normal user". jaclaz

Good. Let me know when you will have succeeded to LOG IN as Administrator. Check if - by any chance - you have the Whoami command available: http://ss64.com/nt/whoami.html I don't think it has any dependency so you can simply ad the executable to the booting media and run it. When and if it won't give you back “nt authority/system”, then you will have a point (and the *whatever* won't be a PE ). jaclaz

Sure , the abuses we are subjected to are far less subtle (and BTW - generically speaking - we have not a Declaration of Independence and a Constitution as liberal - in theory - as the US one), I would say that we have a greater number of what one could perceive as abuses that are not at all abuses (as a matter of fact they are perfectly legal). But on the other hand English (and this most probably is part of the reasons why it became an "interchange language") lacks the subtleties other languages have, the "you" as "singular informal" thou and the "you" as plural/courtesy ye are the same, while we have a rather neat distinction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T–V_distinction jaclaz

Well, for the record, that happened on XP only in English (and maybe in some other languages). In Italian - as an example - "My Computer" is "Risorse del computer" and "My Network Places" are "Risorse di rete", and as well "My Documents" are "Documenti", etc. and they remained unchanged since NT/9x times: Still in Windows 8 the "Your Account" is actually "Il tuo account", which adds another linguistic issue as "tuo" implies a form of familiarity that may sound inappropriate to anyone older than - say - 25 years. jaclaz

Yep , we are now at 8.11111111111111 if I am not mistaken . jaclaz

Well, I guess that in due time someone will find which setting/service/Registry entry does that and a way to disable it will be found. If we set apart the sheer fun of it (which is always a good thing BTW) it is IMHO largely wasted time to "fine tune" any program for each new beta build of Windows 10, since the good MS guys continuously change things underneath at each build, while it is nice that Winntsetup is compatible to make installs of the betas more convenient, minor glitches like this one seem not like a priority. jaclaz

No need to blush , some of the PE projects around, just like the good ol' XPE or Reatogo, do attempt to provide an "as much windows as possible" experience, and it is easy to be mistaken. Yep. Are you hinting that we may be in xyz problem? : http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/put-down-the-chocolate-covered-banana.html @hiddenpower Seriously, please try to explain what is the final goal, if you really need something with Administrator and Guest user profiles that is "portable" there is a "parallel to Make_PE3" project that delivers an (almost) universal "full OS" (reduced) in a .vhd image that may be suitable. jaclaz

Wow, I would have never thought of googling for that. It's incredible what kind of informations you can find this way. And google picture! That is a nice idea. Curiously when I typed exactly that in google (since I find nowhere "pictures" I clicked on "Images" but I believe the results would be similar), I found quite a lot of images of actual sleds chassis, similar to this one: So I had some issues in getting an idea about your working environment, from those results. 100's of thousands of PC's need to be at least 200,000 (twohundredthousands). So, accordingly to this piece of info (which I also found via google, this time typing "largest datacenter amount of servers", without quotes): https://storageservers.wordpress.com/2013/07/17/facts-and-stats-of-worlds-largest-data-centers/ you are working in the Largest Data Center in the world. Which should mean any among: GoogleFacebookAmazonMicrosoft(or of course some secret Government thing, like NSA or similar) Each one using - I believe - very different hardware, some even not using "sleds" at all. However I was trying to point out how "sled" and "chassis" were more "jargon" than "proper names", as I believe you were referring to Blade Servers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_server Thanks for sharing the solution . jaclaz

The procedure is described step by step (for Windows 8.1) here: http://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-switch-your-windows-8-1-log-in-to-a-local-account/ I looked for that to see what was the actual text nicely described as: And I happened to find this other (older) one: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/windows-and-office/quick-tip-change-microsoft-live-to-a-local-account-in-windows-81/ And - OT - something struck me as "odd" and then it finally dawned on me. Instinctively I would look for my account on my computer, not for a "your" one. I have been used for years to see on my computer elements created by by the good MS guys with a caption of "My Computer", "My Documents" (and "My Network Places", "My Music", "My Pictures", etc.). I understand how later they started to take some distance, becoming more "neutral" re-tagging more or less the same items as "Computer", "Documents", "Network" etc. but the switch to "your" is possibly a linguistic Freudian slip proof that my computer (as well as my account) is not anymore mine , at least in their perverted minds . jaclaz

"on the internet" is a bit vague. Here: http://spkcorner.tripod.com/ http://spkcorner.tripod.com/spkwin.htm Would be slightly more accurate and some other members interested in the matter may find additional resources/info/whatever on the given site. jaclaz

Yep, it is entirely possible that *something* in those drivers don't like a device which overall exceeds the 28 bit LBA limit (around 128 Gb). You should try them on a smaller disk (just to exclude this if it is not connected with the problem). jaclaz

Ok. Tell me HOW exactly you LOG IN as either Administrator or Guest in that *whatever* you built a long time ago. Next. please, check in that *whatever* whether you have a user profile folder for "Administrator" and for "Guest". (as these were the questions actually asked) jaclaz

Maybe it is because the disk is "out of range" . Try describing the actual hardware you are testing those tools on, maybe there are size limits in those softwares, i.e. the disk you tried them on are simply "too big" jaclaz

I have NO idea of what you are talking about. Winbuilder is a builder, it can build a PE or something else. Something is EITHER a PE or it is not. A PE has NO users, the only user is System in a PE, if you prefer, if *antything* has users, it is NOT a PE. jaclaz

Sure it is . Most of the controversy about UAC (particularly with the initial setup in Vista ) was with the fact that it was far too "intruding" than actually needed, and it's use has been largely mitigated in later Windows versions (while in the meantime a number of third party software writers evidently learned how to write programs requiring less privileges). I believe that it is not very easy to balance the actual *needed* protective measures with the actual common *needs* that a user (particularly an "uneducated" home, "average Joe" ) might have, and all in all the good MS guys have IMHO reached in 7 (and I presume also later versions of Windows) a good compromise. Still it is not evidently a much working in practice "security" mechanism, it is simply a way to "invite" people to pay some more attention on what they allow to run on their machines but seemingly people keep pressing "yes" to those prompts anyway or downright disable UAC because they are annoyed by too many prompts. jaclaz