jaclaz

@NoelC It depends on personal habits. I now usually keep my "main" PC on 24/7, but when I worked in an office, I was used to switch the PC on in the morning, as soon as I arrived there, it would took something like 90-120 seconds or so, but I don't actually know, as - as soon as I pressed the button - I would go and make some coffee. I thus claim that how much time it takes to switch on is of no relevance whatsoever as I had more important things to do (coffee) than looking at the bootscreen waiting impatiently for the desktop to appear, and since this alternative activity took me as much as 5 minutes, even if booting was much slower it would not have affected my wellness (whilst the lack of coffee would have had terrible consequences ). @shae But the point is what is the actual time needed for: "full" (cold) boot "resume" from hibernation "resume" from hybrid hibernationand, more specifically, what is the difference between them? And is it really worth it? Just for the record, there is also a "lateral thinking" way : http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=21535.0 http://skwire.dcmembers.com/wb/pages/software/boot-snooze.php If you think a bit about it, when the PC goes into sleep/hibernation it doesn't really matter how much it takes to get into that state, it should happen rarely, maybe once in a lifetime that you need to get it very quickly up again. jaclaz

Actually - for the record - RFire posted it in this same thread (which doesn't mean that xpclient might not have suggested it to you as well): http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/170497-whats-it-going-to-take-to-restore-previous-versions-from-shadow-copies/#entry1082221 But, if we "migrated" to command line, isn't the Diskshadow.exe now included in 8/8.1?: Server 2008: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc772172(WS.10).aspx Windows 8, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc772172.aspx jaclaz

Interesting. I guess it comes from here: http://hddcaddy.eu/2010/01/22/which-hdd-caddy-for-my-laptop/ If the issue is connected to the BIOS, then no, you need either a mofdified BIOS or a hardware mod, but I doubt that the BIOS plays any role once a "protected mode" OS (and HAL and drivers) have loaded, so I would believe that a specific Filter Driver could be written to avoid this behaviour. UPDATE: The "hardware mod" however must not be that much a complex one, see: http://www.amazon.co.uk/EiioX-12-7mm-Universal-DVD-ROM-storage/dp/B00E7MH15Y http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R3Q0BO84VRA2GC/ref=cm_cr_dp_title/280-7467464-6950938?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B00E7MH15Y&channel=detail-glance&nodeID=340831031&store=computers If it's a "switch" it must be a very simple "hack", as judging from the photos of similar thingies I found there is no electronics on board and the connectors seem a lot like "passive" gender changers/adapters. UPDATE2: It is seemingly a "misuse" of the SATA Pin 4 "Diagnostics" as "Device Attention" pin: http://forum.notebookreview.com/sony/673048-sony-s15-2012-disassembly-odd-caddy-video-tutorial-19.html In another thread the pin is simply disconnected: http://forum.notebookreview.com/hardware-components-aftermarket-upgrades/388625-diy-adding-ssd-hdd-storage-using-optical-bay-caddy-48.html It seems like the "feature" only applies to Windows 8 and later: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/dn614034(v=vs.85).aspx SATA specs (WARNING! 9 Mb or 700 pages in size): http://www.knowledgetek.com/graphicsNew/SerialATA_Revision_3_1_Gold-KT.pdf jaclaz

Maybe useful, maybe not, there is a new thingy: https://github.com/candera/shadowspawn Thanks to Zimmy, which posted about it here: http://reboot.pro/topic/19410-vss-to-capture-live-logical-disk/ http://reboot.pro/topic/19410-vss-to-capture-live-logical-disk/?p=187667 It is an evolution/spin-off from Hobocopy: https://github.com/candera/hobocopy http://reboot.pro/topic/7400-copy-locked-system-files-tis-now-possible/ jaclaz

Interesting. Without knowing anything of the innards of the mechanism, I find very probable that it may have issues when a USB Mass Storage device is connected (as the error code seems like involving a "volume"), but I find queer that it may do the same with HID ones, like the mouse and headphone , or at least, while the mouse may be "used within" or "connected with" sleep/hibernation and consequent resume, the headphone should be "innocent". I would try with no USB attached, then with just the headphone and then readd the mouse, making sure that there is no setting like "wake/resume on mouse movement" or "wake/resume on mouse click", something like that could even be a setting in the BIOS, not only in the OS control panel. jaclaz

I may be (actually I am) completely unaware on how Dropbox works, but I fail to see how it helps with versioning. maybe you are thinking of "syncing" (which is a different thing IMHO). Maybe you need something *like* git ("versioning"): http://msysgit.github.io/ or *like* syncany ("syncronizing"): https://www.syncany.org/ or maybe pydio/ajaxplorer or similar: https://pyd.io/ http://alternativeto.net/software/ajaxplorer/ jaclaz

I don' t get it. What has FTP that does not fulfill your requirements and IF it does not fulfill them, WHY you asked about it? If it's about security, you can have SFTP/SSHFS instead: https://code.google.com/p/win-sshfs/ http://igikorn.com/sshfs-windows-8/ jaclaz

Additionally, OSR2 and 2.1 are 4.00.950.B while OSR 2.5 is 4.00.950.C, at least according to MS: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/253756/en-us jaclaz

Surprising. jaclaz

You can get an original .iso through DigitalRiver downloads: http://www.heidoc.net/joomla/technology-science/microsoft/14-windows-7-direct-download-links jaclaz

Technically it is out of support, BUT a very similar version (like 99.999% simlar, please read as EXACTLY the same) is still supported. See: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/171814-posready-2009-updates-ported-to-windows-xp-sp3-enu/ And: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/171171-introducing-unofficial-windows-xp-sp4/ jaclaz

A leaked internal use only acronym for "dumb end user"? jaclaz

JorgeA, don't take it the wrong way , but you clearly have no idea on how things go in a company like MS. Julie Larsen-Green (or any other self-proclaimed UI guru in the high ranks of MS) decided that people didn't need the Start Menu and later used (real or faked) telemetry data to support the theory. jaclaz

Well, I believe that you can try first to use (if available in your BIOS) to set the install to "IDE compatibility mode" and install (actually merge into the existing install) the "plain" Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller Driver, This is documented and relatively easy: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/78535-change-the-hal-and-add-mass-storage-drivers/?p=534757 the mentioned MS KB: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314082/en-us should apply to 2K as well. Of course it is up to you "translating" the method to be applied to an offline registry. Or, since you are from Austria, you should have no issue in verifying that this works in 2K (or adapt it accordingly): http://www.andysblog.de/windows-mergeide-v3-0 (German) On the 911CD mentioned sub-forum there are two tools (though if they work "as is" on 2K is to be tested) besides OfflineSysprep itself that can "integrate" a Mass Storage driver on an offline install: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=22523 http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=22313 If the approach works, you should be able to boot in "IDE compatibility mode", and later we will see how to "switch" to AHCI/SATA. jaclaz

No. Inaccessible boot device is 0x0000007b (NOT 7c). It is usually connected to a Mass Storage driver, not to HAL or KERNEL. jaclaz

What I personally use: http://www.ferrobackup.com/ftpuse/ jaclaz

Sure , and a lot of goods of different nature are also available for free, you just break in and get what you want , it is relatively easy . jaclaz

Which of course prompts for the question WHAT does it use instead? Like Wimlib, Wimgapi.dll or *something else*? jaclaz

Well, I find this understandable , the guy that cracked it somehow lost credibility all of a sudden and they are frustrated by this. jaclaz

Yeah, sure, you can have "regular" and "maxi" fries, and Big Mac or QuarterPound, besides "small", "medium" and "large" beverage. Try asking for a well-done hamburger, with added onions, without salad but with some added tomato and cheese. McDonalds is not a good example . The actual "secret" of the success of McDonalds lies in "standardization" which is not, in itself a bad thing, but you have the choice to go one day to McDonalds, another day to a Chinese restaurant, another day to an Italian one, etc., what you can be pretty sure about is that you can get the same "standard" food no matter if you go to a McDonald's in the US or (say) in Germany. Not specifically McDonald's, BUT: jaclaz

The "normal" PassPass is a grub4dos batch script. Grub4dos needs BIOS services. Some motherboards may have NOT a choice in their firmware to switch from UEFI to CSM (Compatibility Support Mode, aka BIOS). As explained here: http://reboot.pro/topic/18588-passpass-bypass-the-password/?p=187362 the grub4dos solution (where applicable) is more "elegant" because you boot, run the script, then continue booting, while the PE approach implies that you boot to the PE, run the tool, then reboot to the installed OS. Of course the choice of an AutoIt script to be run in a PE is arbitrary, as long as you boot *any* OS that has access to the internal installed OS disk, anything would do, batch, bash, DOS, Linux, etc. jaclaz P.S.: a manual on the use of PEPassPass has been in the meantime published, here : http://reboot.pro/topic/20045-pepasspass/?p=187579

Very good, and largely within expected timeline jaclaz

You make it sound like it was a sanctuary or shrine dedicated to IE jaclaz

Just to keep the topic updated, PassPass now works also with Windows 8.1 (thanks Steve6375) and boulcat made an AutoIt version that can run in a PE (thus can be used also on UEFI machines that have not CSM/BIOS mode). Link remains valid: http://www.sherlock.reboot.pro/passpass-bypass-the-password/ To discuss/troubleshoot/whatever the AutoIt version PEPassPass, topic is here: http://reboot.pro/topic/20045-pepasspass/ jaclaz

Basically it is "normal" hybernation after having logged off, but there are some more differences. See: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/152937-what-is-hybrid-boot-in-windows-8-and-how-does-it-work/ And: http://amigotechnotes.wordpress.com/2013/12/10/shutdown-hybrid-boot-and-hibernate-in-windows-8/ http://www.sevenforums.com/customization/256562-hybrid-boot-windows-7-possible.html http://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/windows-7-hybrid-boot.335028/ In this: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/windows-and-office/how-windows-8-hybrid-shutdown-fast-boot-feature-works/ you will also find (as a side note) a pearl of wisdom by Greg Shultz: jaclaz