jaclaz

Maybe the issue is just with SETUPLDR.BIN (or more generally with "installing") whilst the installed system can possibly be later switched to a different HAL/KERNEL? jaclaz

With all due respect, I'll be the judge of what's good for me. And you should know better than to mess with a hangin' judge. Sure , you didn't notice that I am on the same side of the fence as you are . The side where we may (or may not) agree to what "they" want us to do (and how to do that) and feel free to do (or not do) it. Your dictionary may have suffered from the same accident as Aloha's: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/163489-startisback-16/page-43#entry1083366 Editing previous post to clarify. jaclaz

I believe that Pro Home and Media Center are essentially the same thing (actually I am pretty sure about Pro and Home, I have no experience with Media Center), so, provided that one of them (with all the updates, plugins, etc.) does fit into a .wim around 500-550 Mb or so in size, it should be possible by using extensively hard links. This would leave some 100 Mb or so for the PE, but if the PE is to be used only for installation it should be more than enough. The smallest PE for running a setup could be something in the range of 20-40 Mb (possibly less). The "older" machines need to be defined, however. I mean if the machine is so old that it doesn't boot from USB, then it is likely to also be IDE (and there would be no problems, if it is SATA there might be the usual issue with drivers), on the other hand a USB stick or hard disk is much more convenient (besides faster) on *anything* (maybe exception made for really old USB 1.1 only machines). And possibly it would make no sense to have Media Center on such a machine. :unsure. jaclaz

Not at all bad, thanks for asking . Money, what else? Either a considerable sum of money to buy a new computer with the newish latish fastish OS included or simple, good ol' bribing by MS (donations from third parties accepted as well ). Now, seriously, the PC market (business) has been traditionally (and in some cases understandably) been slower that the "home" market to adopt new machines and OS's. And the home market is largely made out of OEM installs, very few people buy a "full" license to upgrade the OS they are currently running on the "same" (oldish) PC. But typically (and with the exception of "emerging countries") the PC market has changed from "primary" to "replacement" (both for businesses and home users). Until working machines won't stop working (or start giving problems) IMHO most "average Joe's" will not replace them with the new ones, this is somewhat independent from the quality of the new OS (unless of course the good MS guys find a way to really provide something much better, doing more, new, useful things). jaclaz

... and when someone forcibly prevents them from doing what they wish to do, or like to do, or fancy to do or simply are used to do, some people may get upset. Mark Russinovich, at the time, had this to say on UAC: http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2007/02/12/638372.aspx [sarcasm] Don't worry, it may hurt a bit, but it is for your own good. [/sarcasm] jaclaz

You are welcome . Most probably you were slipping on a chocolate covered banana (or fell in the XYZ fallacy): http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/put-down-the-chocolate-covered-banana.html Sometimes it is important to ask the right question, in order to get the right answer . jaclaz

Well, in my simplicity, and relatively to the context, the "interactive" is the same since AT on NT Windows systems was invented: http://ss64.com/nt/at.html http://support.microsoft.com/kb/121562/en-us One of the common issues with passwords of an Admin use in AT or SCHTASKS, is that the password is in clear text, hence it is not something I would personally "leave around" in my PC's, hence the suggestion for CPAU. @Outbreaker Good. jaclaz

Are you really sure that RunFromProcess is "not compatible" with WIndows XP? But I am still failing to understand the previous reference to "interactive" nor (sorry, maybe I have one of those dumb days) what exactly is the problem. You want to run that CodecTweakTool.exe command when you are logged in as Admin, BUT the command needs to be executed as SYSTEM? On my XP these works fine: @ECHO OFF::Runasprocess.cmdRunfromprocess.exe Explorer.exe "cmd.exe /C" C:\batches\RFP\mytest.cmdRunfromprocess.exe Winlogon.exe "cmd.exe /C" C:\batches\RFP\mytest.cmd @ECHO OFF:mytest.cmdwhoami >>c:\batches\RFP\test.logResulting test.log: jaclaz

Yep, but you are still describing your proposed way to reach your goal, as opposed to describing your actual goal, which - if I get this right - can be reached through other ways. The real issue with RunAs is that you have to provide a password, and to provide it in "clear text", CPAU uses an encrypted one. There is however an "interactive" switch to the AT command: http://ss64.com/nt/at.html and the SCHTASKS has the /IT /RU switches: http://ss64.com/nt/schtasks.html So, unless you provide a "real world" detailed example, I have - as said - difficulties in understanding what you mean. Or, you want something *like* : http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/run_from_process.html jaclaz

I see. Though the answer is still "No" ( or possibly "not yet"). jaclaz

No, of course, it needs Windows 8: WHAT is the actual question? jaclaz

Can you try to better describe the issue/question/requirements/restraints? Wouldn't CPAU solve the problem (though differently)? http://www.joeware.net/freetools/tools/cpau/index.htm jaclaz

There are two points worth of note: it is to be found out IF the XP driver is suitable for 2K adapt the Registry entries for your specific dirver and controllerIt should be clear that point #2 makes no sense if the driver is not suitable for 2K. As an alternative, try using UNIATA: http://alter.org.ua/en/soft/win/uni_ata/ which surely is 2K compatible and should be also compatible with your hardware. jaclaz

See if this fits the situation: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/120444-how-to-install-windows-from-usb-winsetupfromusb-with-gui/page-24#entry884409 http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?444831-HOWTO-enable-AHCI-mode-after-installing-Windows (you will need to adapt for the PCI VEN/DEV, etc., ideally you should check an XP installation to make sure). Are you sure the XP drivers are good for 2k? jaclaz

To be fair, "real" hardware VoIP phones and "plain" Softphones using SIP tend to actually work , that may be a diffference. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VoIP_phone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_VoIP_software http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softphone jaclaz

Is ComboFix compatible with XP64? (I believe it is, but cannot guarantee) If it is, I would give it a try, if I were you. http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/combofix/ jaclaz

Well, if you have the tools and ability to open a laptop (without cracking it ) and more than that re-assembling it after having cleaned it , you definitely can replace a thermal pad. If you never applied a piece of double-side adhesive tape anywhere , then you might need to take a course on it . It is not entirely unlike what you would do with a gasket when you disassemble an engine, even if it seems fine, while you are at it you replace it anyway, but if you are disassembling the engine beacause you found out some water or oil is leaking, you definitely change it. A laptop GPU or CPU thermal pad should cost something like 1 or 2 bucks, while disassembling and reassembling a laptop is likely to take more than one hour, and after having replaced it/them you will be at least sure that you did the most that could be done. jaclaz

@JorgeA In other words, it is *something* that makes everyone able to do *dangerous* things through an additional click of the mouse. @MagicAndre1981 I am pretty sure you have it right , but you should tell this to the good MS guys: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709691(v=ws.10).aspx and: At least they call it a "security component" and say that it's adoption should help protect the OS from "malicious software". jaclaz

Hmmm. The whole point is that if the hardware overheats, performance will be degraded as most modern hardware uses temperature sensors to "throttle down" the CPU (or GPU or both) in order to attempt to build not too much heat. If this happens on your machine, no matter how "lean" is the OS, as soon as a given temp is reached, everything will slow down, often down to a crawl. jaclaz

Which is fine. I claim I don't understand UAC (and I am not particularly interested in understanding it ). The only thing I know about it, is that it gets in the way every three things I do on a computer (usually someone else's computer that went beserk for *whatever* reasons, through "plain" use with UAC fully enabled and that I am attempting to fix). No doubts that UAC may be seen from a technical viewpoint as the third best thing in life after ice cream and sliced bread, still it seemingly does not provide the protection against OS corruption that it promises in common practice. And yes, I already know the counter reply "well, if the OS had not UAC enabled it would have been corrupted earlier", and it is exactly the point on which my practical (limited) experience casts some doubts. Given that I have the same - more or less totally inept at computers - friends, I haven't seen in last ten years any decrease in desperate requests" for "Help, my PC doesn't work" and certainly I could not observe any decreasing corresponding to adoption of UAC enabled OS's. Of course this means nothing really, only reporting my personal experience. jaclaz

My guess is that the "hard drive led" is actually an "activity on SATA bus led", and if this is the case there is no way you can change it's behaviour. As well if you set in the BIOS SATA/AHCI, that setting affects the way the controller is detected by the booting OS and it's "global" for all devices connected to the SATA bus, so last sidenote seems to me like perfectly "normal". The "booting issue" sounds strange, it seems like the booting OS "interrogates" the device and cannot have the reply it expects. Is the behaviour the same with?: a CF card inserted (wiped, i.e. all 00's) a CF card partitioned/formatted (i.e. with first sector a MBR) a CF card only formatted (i.e. as "superfloppy" with first sector a PBR)Can you make a boot log with the CF card (i.e. "hanging") and one without the CF card (i.e. booting normally)? Additionally, can you try tracing the boot with xbootmgr/xperf? http://helpdeskgeek.com/how-to/speed-up-boot-time-in-windows-vista/ I believe you need the WAIK or the SDK to get the tools. jaclaz

A 2.80 Ghz Celeron with 1 Gb RAM is a more than decent hardware for XP. I have had (and still have) similar machines and they run fine. No matter whether you like it or not, if you want to solve the overheating you need to open up the laptop. Besides thoroughly cleaning it, generally speaking the heat sinks - particularly of the GPU - use a "thermal pad" (as opposed to heat transfer paste) and these thermal pads tend over time to "dry up" and lose part of their heat transmission properties and simply need to be replaced. If - when the disk was replaced - the recovery partition was preserved, I would try imaging the disk "as is" and the do a recovery (you will find yourself with a machine that has a lot of HP bloatware BUT that is "as from factory"). With that see how it behaves (of course NOT connected to the Internet as it won't likely have any antivirus/protection). Then I would see if installing a "lited" XP (at least wthout the HP bloat) would make a difference. jaclaz

The pins are the same for most Seagate models, that is NOT the issue. The parameters of the serial transmission may be different depending on model. There is NO evidence whatsoever that your USB/TTL adapter is of the "suitable kind". The fact that it works in a loopback doesn't mean that it doesn't use the "wrong" TTL levels. PLEASE, STOP posting on this UNRELATED to your issue thread and start a NEW THREAD if you want assistance with your issue (which is NOT related to a 7200.11 and DOES NOT belong to this thread). jaclaz

Well, if it is different from a 7200.11: the 7200.11 "fix" will NOT likely work this thread which is for 7200.11 ONLY is not the right place to ask questions about a non-7200.11To this you add two a few changes from the "known" paths/methods, the use of MacOSX, the use of Minicom (whatever it is), an unspeciified USB/TTL adapter and clearly you are not using the Windows Terminal. Verify it is a 7200.11 with model ending in AS. If it is not one, start a new thread about your issue, after having checked for other existing threads (there is one about the 7200.12 and one about the ES.2 or NS version of the 7200.11) but YMMGV, there is a concrete risk that you might trying to apply either the "wrong" cure to the "right" disease or the "right" cure to the "wrong" disease. Double check with point #1 of the read-me-first: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/143880-seagate-barracuda-720011-read-me-first/ jaclaz

I wish I could say "it could have been worse", but I would be telling a lie. More images on the (german) source: http://www.computerbase.de/2014-09/windows-9-technical-preview-bilder-testversion/ http://winfuture.de/news,83577.html IF the background image (that looks a lot like one of those prank images to simulate a broken LCD screen) is going to be the default one and an example of the "new design" I confirm how humanity is doomed. The "Microsoft Confidential" notice: must have been put on it by the lawyers fearing being sued as an innocent kid may remain shocked by viewing it and it would not be uncommon that elderly people with a previous heart condition would get a final stroke when seeing it. jaclaz