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My bad , it's here: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/173642-mkprilog-batch-to-access-a-same-disk-under-two-different-interfaces/ (also corrected previous post) jaclaz

Ok. 0.99 version (more or less "final unless something new comes out") is out, here: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/173642-mkprilog-batch-to-access-a-same-disk-under-two-different-interfaces/ jaclaz

Once upon a time in a not-so-far away forum, here: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/173265-formatting-an-external-drive-using-different-interfaces/ someone found himself in a "queer" situation with an external hard disk case that provided two connections, a USB one and a e-SATA one. This specific enclosure worked fine with the disk it originally came with as that was a "real" 512 bytes/sector disk and both interfaces exposed a 512 bytes/sector device. But, once the disk was changed to a "new" one that is one of the so called "Advanced Format" kind, something strange happened. The e-SATA interface exposed a 512 bytes/sector device The USB interface exposed a 4096 bytes/sector device. The net result was that the disk was unreadable when connected through the "other" interface. Provided "solutions" involved one or more of the following: buy a new diskbuy a new enclosure/interfacegive up and buy a new external diskbuy new PC's and have everything USB3....Being, besides old and grumpy, also cheap, I proposed instead a "workaround" that after quite a bit of experimenting (thanks to the OP Dave-H) seems like being "good enough" to be useful to other (I hope few) people being affected by the same issue, and that (possibly) may become useful when/if similar issues will present themselves. Basically the disk is divided into two partitions, the first one being a small FAT12 volume that will always be accessible (both when connected through the 512 bytes/sector interface and when connected through the 4096 bytes/sector one) on which a small batch (and a few needed command line executable used by the batch) resides. The second partition is a (large or main) NTFS one that can be accessed from the one or the other interface but that needs to be "switched" every time the connection is changed to the "other" interface. All is needed when you connect the disk is to run the switcher.cmd from the first (FAT) small partition and it will "switch" the second (NTFS) main partition to the appropriate byte/sectors settings. Though the scope of the thingy is quite "narrow", probably the underlying "principles" may be useful in other situations, we will see. The attached is version 0.99 which more or less means that all the various batches which were at various releases like 0.06 , 0.07 or 0.09 mod3, since they seemed to work, were suddenly - after very little and mostly esthetical changes - promoted to 0.99 which should give the impression of "not really final, yet almost there". Have fun. jaclaz Version0.99.zip

At least in Italian "Spartan" is an adjective which is a somewhat "false pair" with English, besides the obvious meaning of "citizen of Sparta", the main meaning in Italian (in common use) is NOT that of "person of courage", but rather that of "extremely strict or rigid" or "extremely simple, with no frills or feature" with a negative connotation of "uncomfortable" or "below current common standards". As an example you would say a "spartan accomodation" to describe without being too harsh a hotel room scarcely furnitured where you felt NOT comfortable. If actually nomen est omen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism it doesn't seem like a very good start to revamp a (previously failed) "brand". jaclaz

Sure, tin foil is so '90's, we are much ahead of that : http://reboot.pro/topic/13177-an-improved-electromagnetical-shielding-device/ and be aware of light bulbs and plastic coffee cups : http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/168921-lightbulbs-that-emit-wi-fi/ http://www.forensicfocus.com/Forums/viewtopic/t=10944/ jaclaz

AFAIK and JFYI, that key is a "switch": http://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2014/10/07/console-improvements-in-the-windows-10-technical-preview/ "ForceV2"=0 means "use the old, traditional console, which many programs know and that they can - if needed - hide" "ForceV2"=1 means "use the new, *somewhat* different console, i.e. something that existing programs cannot (yet) recognize, let alone hide. jaclaz

How would Clover behave? Can it load from CD/DVD? jaclaz

Or, provided that the contents are redistributable, upload the file to somewhere and someone may have a look at it and see if it is (at least partially) recoverable. jaclaz

Yes/No. http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/questions-with-yes-or-no-answers.html There are several other possibilities, whether they work or not depends on the specific archive, on the specific tool that was used to make it and from a number of other factors, including the "specific" kind of corruption the archive has. A few programs that worked in the past: http://reboot.pro/topic/12255-need-help-with-virtual-floppy/?p=106682 http://reboot.pro/topic/12255-need-help-with-virtual-floppy/?p=106684 jaclaz

...while in real world it describes either of: jaclaz

Good , then buyerninety gave you unsolicited advice, that you nonetheless wish to try . My bad , though I am in good company in having misunderstood your post.. jaclaz

@CharlesF Nomen's post has NOTHING to do with large fonts or shifting and a lot to do with incorrect font rendering. You have a (apparently slighter) issue which seems completely UNLIKE the one the OP asked about, compare how you can read in the screenshot you posted the text "The #1 Cloud Business Software Suite" and how the same reads (actually completely fails to) on the screenshot Nomen posted. jaclaz

I am missing your point/reference. Not really, or not necessarily, this is why I am asking. I had the (possibly completely wrong, BTW) impression that this is one of the "if it ain't broke, let's fix it nonetheless" cases. jaclaz

To make it short: Good : http://www.msfn.org/board/forum/23-site-forum-issues/page-51 http://www.msfn.org/board/forum/23-site-forum-issues/page-52 Switch from Good to Bad (last two topics) : http://www.msfn.org/board/forum/23-site-forum-issues/page-53 Bad : http://www.msfn.org/board/forum/23-site-forum-issues/page-54 http://www.msfn.org/board/forum/23-site-forum-issues/page-55 http://www.msfn.org/board/forum/23-site-forum-issues/page-56 Number based (different issue, but still issue): Topics good: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/1- http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/13- http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/101- http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/1000- http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/10000- http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/100001- Topics bad: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/10- We could not determine which forum this topic is in.[1] http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/11- We could not determine which forum this topic is in.[1] http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/12- We could not determine which topic you were attempting to view.[2] http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/100- We could not determine which topic you were attempting to view.[2] http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/100000- We could not determine which topic you were attempting to view.[2] [1]This is likely to be one of the issues at hand. [2]This is more likely to be a deleted or set invisible topic. jaclaz

I will repeat how MANY THINGS (some of which were listed above) are ALREADY EVIDENTLY NOT PROPER on that machine, currently it is a MESS, i.e. it is SEVERELY MISCONFIGURED, you re NEAR to have the filesystem COLLAPSE through filling it up to the brim and you worry about deleting unneeded files being "not proper"? I give up. jaclaz

No , this should not happen. The bootsector of the NTFS volume on the disk (at connection time) is EITHER set to the 512 or to the 4kb. IF it is 512 and the connection is 512 then the label Data_512 is read (and the switcherQE doesn't do anything to it). IF it is 512 and the connection is 4kb then the label is NOT read (as Explorer has no way to read it, for all it knows it is a malformed filesystem) and the switcherQE changes it to Data_4kb. IF it is 4kb and the connection is 4kb then the label Data_4kb is read (and the switcherQE doesn't do anything to it). IF it is 4kb and the connection is 512 then the label is NOT read (as Explorer has no way to read it, for all it knows it is a malformed filesystem) and the switcherQE changes it to Data_512.In cases 2 and 4 at connection time Explorer should show a non-label, i.e. the default "Local Disk" and (hopefully) after the switch either Data_512 or Data_4kb, you should never have a situation in which you have Data_512 and after the switch it becomes Data_4kb or viceversa. If "Local Disk" remains after the switch could be an "update lag" in Explorer, if you close the Explorer Windows and re-open it should be updated. Can you check and find a "repeatable sequence" that causes the issue? Now the batch tells you when it actually switches and issues the LABEL command, if the batch outputs ECHO Assigning Label "Data_%Disk_Connected_As%" to drive %FirstFree%and/or the last line (diskpart output) shows the "right" label the result should be reflected in Explorer immediately, at least this is what happens here in XP, maybe Windows 8.x has (yet another) different behaviour? jaclaz

Done . I made another couple little changes adding a couple empty lines to make the output more readable. jaclaz SwitcherQEVmod5.zip

Depending on how EXACTLY a .zip archive has been created (and on the kind of contents) sometimes it is possible to "fix" the archive or at least extract partially the data. There is no way to know if any of the above is possible without the actual archive. jaclaz

I am clearly missing something , but isn't that a Server 2003 (and later) update, released AFTER the end of support for XP? jaclaz

I don't think that what you want to do - which is if I get it right to make a single install.esd capable of installing BOTH a x86 and a x64 Windows 8.x is doable at all , BUT IF it is possible (which again I doubt) most probably the tool that might be able to do it is Wimlib: http://sourceforge.net/projects/wimlib/ You could try posting a (possibly DETAILED) question on the matter here: http://reboot.pro/topic/18345-wimlib-with-imagex-implementation/ jaclaz

Well, but the whole point is to have the user experience be as "smooth" as possible. Try the attached, let's see if the effect is mitigated by adding a couple lines of output. jaclaz SwitcherQEVmod4.zip

WHY? WHY? WHICH .esd files? jaclaz

Well, in the good ol*times, years before there were all these graduated IT technicians and all these powerful hardwares we were forced to use common sense® when dealing with computers, trying to tailor their setups to what the actual needs were. From what has been posted till now, that particular server is misconfigured with an excessive amount of RAM when compared to the available hard disk space, a senseless pagefile setting and with an OS that is too d@mn bloated to reside on such a small hard disk device, to which there is seemingly the issue of an awful (if the actual data resides on another machine) amount of data per user, additionally seemingly unmanaged. What would make sense IMHO (and of course it depends on a number of factors that only you can know) are only two things: 1) get a pair of suitable larger hard disks and restore to them the current OS data and settings unmodified (though they will remain absurd with a couple of 500 Gb disks it will go on a long time 2) check and correct the settings, slim down the unneeded data, the obsolete parts of the OS, reduce the pagefile size to a decent value, you don't anyway really want to ever analyze a 16 Gb crash dump. Personally, I would also trace actual memory usage as - as a guess - it is unlikely that you ever hit more than 6 Gb, in which case it would make sense to remove some RAM an leave the thingy with 8 Gb of Ram. Consider how in normal operation when a NTFS filesystem is filled up to 85% it starts to be an issue and rule of the thumb is to make it so that at most 80% is used. jaclaz

Well, it is one of the strangest server setups I have ever heard of. I mean: 16 Gb of RAM is what we old people call in jargon "an awful lot of memory"120 Gb Hard disk space is instead what we old people call in jargon "nice large size for the OS disk only, now where is the actual storage?"It simply doesn't make sense (to me) as a configuration, if it's scope is to be a file server it has not a suitable storage size and way too more RAM than needed (and particularly a pagefile eating up what 15% of available storage is "crazy"), if it is *something else* (let's say a mail or http server) the user files should not be there at all (and still 16 Gb are way more than needed). From it's specs: Consider how a fully installed 2003 R2 x64 should be something like less than 5 Gb. If you use a Server 2008 R2 and 2x36 Gb Mirrored SAS drives you have -18 Gb available for anything else jaclaz

Also, for those that are concerned about a conspiracy theory (or the other ) let's not forget the not-so-trifling issue of ...the small yellow dots.... (if you cannot see anything after the "of" above, you are getting the point just right ) https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-display-tracking-dots http://seeingyellow.com/ jaclaz