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  1. I am not sure to understand your current situation (correct me if I am wrong in the following summming up). for *whatever* reasons your OS/PC was rendered unbootable you installed to it (temporarily) a "common" OEM Windows 8 everything works now but the feature to re-install from scratch from the recovery partition (i.e. go back to factory settings) as in: http://support.asus.com/Troubleshooting/detail.aspx?SLanguage=en&m=G73Sw&os=&no=1775Is it possible that the re-install overwrote *something* in the boot sequence that prevents you from F9 successfully. I am not at all familiar with the Windows 8 recovery, but I presume it won't be that much different from the Vista/7 one, if this is the case, you may find some info here: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/128727-cant-access-repair-my-pc-option-via-f8-startup/ First thing to understand is if the F9 is something "built in the Windows 8 \boot\bcd" or it is a "special MBR code form Asus". What happens when you boot? Are you actually prompted for the F9 option and then it doesn't work? (ora are you not prompted anymore)? Can you actually access the "recovery partition and list the files in it? jaclaz
  2. Queer. Have you checked the BIOS battery? jaclaz
  3. flasche, you are doing it wrong. (no offence intended). Basically you get *some* (and *some* only) info from this thread, then "go astray" looking elsewhere for procedures/tools/whatever that you think will fit your needs (but that may not or that may make this NT 4.00 install more complex than needed). Please, answer these questions: How big is the laptop hard disk? Is it Pata or Sata? If Sata, does it have the option in BIOS to use "IDE compatibility mode"? Does the laptop have a USB port? Does it's BIOS allow booting from USB? Do you have a "bigger-than-the-laptop's hard disk" USB hard disk? Are you familiar with Qemu (actually Qemu Manager)? Are you familiar with making a USB bootable PE of some kind?jaclaz
  4. I can confirm that here is nice , there is a bit more detached. jaclaz
  5. I thought Roadkill cuisine was rather common : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadkill_cuisine particularly in West Virginia: http://pccocwv.com/roadkill jaclaz
  6. You will need to make a detailed list (with avatars ) of the people included in the "we" jaclaz
  7. I am pretty sure that this applies to *any* hardware, speed=power=heat. Think of all the 64bit processing power (and unused RAM, and increased power consumption) in the world because of the senseless shift ot 64 bit computing on "end-user" machines (used daily to do mainly e-mails, badly written reports on Word and lousy spredsheets on Excel, besides some browsing on the Internet). Fortunately this is probably somehow compensated by the increase of smallish, less powerful, portable devices and the overall decrease of desktops. jaclaz
  8. To answer you question, no, I didn't notice that particular article, though I did knew that the technology existed, cannot really say where exactly I read/learned about it, most probably some article here in Italy, however this was some time ago, possibly the source being these much older NBC news: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/43400428/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/t/cold-put-jacket-hot-put-jacket/#.U1gK4b0Zk_g About the linked to article IMHO the best part is in the comments : Now we are really, OT, but you made me do it . jaclaz
  9. No pun intended with boars (they are a real issue, particularly at night, as well as deers <- again just the plain animal, no pun intended). But you will have to bear with me : jaclaz
  10. ..and...? I am failing to see the point (unless you really want to know if I read it or not) jaclaz
  11. Back on topic (almost), I just checked the price list from a small local OEM (for OS to be installed/shipped with one of their desktop systems): Windows 8 "Home" Euro 91.83Windows 8.1 "Home" Euro 92.35Windows 7 "home Premium" Euro 100.16It must be be because of the "Premium" jaclaz
  12. Poor Peltier. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Charles_Athanase_Peltier so many years of work in physics and people still considers water running through valves and heat trasfer methods, instead of his nice effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_cooling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peltier_effect#Peltier_effect jaclaz
  13. @Stefan43 It is "rare" to find an user of 9x/Me these days unaware of Mdgx's site : http://www.mdgx.com/ This is the page related to my comment: http://www.mdgx.com/9s2m/ but the WHOLE site is a mine of infos and tools for the "modern" 9x/Me user. jaclaz
  14. Just look a bit "around you" in this same sub-forum. Understandably , most people here run 98SE, some with the 98SE2ME Mdgx's recommendations, and only a few run "pure" Me, but the differences with 98SE are not that much (or are you going to racistly tag those using 98 as "retrocomputing geeks"? ) jaclaz
  15. It's all a matter of styling. Trip prefers "casual cabling" to more formal styles, it just like hairstyle, beauty is in the eye of the beholder: OT , but not much, an useful tip : jaclaz
  16. We are nowadays all familiar to *any* kind of crazy project involving a RaspberryPI, but I find this so nice that I thought it worth being shared here: A 1:3 Macintosh replica, actually working and running (through minivmac http://minivmac.sourceforge.net/ ) an actual Mac OS :: http://hacknmod.com/hack/functional-13-scale-macintosh-replica-using-a-raspberry-pi/ http://retromaccast.ning.com/profiles/blogs/honey-i-shrunk-the-computer jaclaz
  17. That is good , as also advanced and highly advanced USB sticks completely lack batteries, no bases for making a classist distinction among them. BUT extremely highly advanced may actually have them, example: http://www.istorage-uk.com/datashur.php As a OT and very side note, the actual security of this kind of "secure" device is - generally speaking - to be verified, see: http://spritesmods.com/?art=security Now, if Arminuis was making reference to a USB MP3 player, even if it is normally seen as a "Mass Storage Device", just like an USB flash stick is (and has a battery) is not properly (or not only) a "USB stick". jaclaz
  18. Still you, Benny (like any aardvark), and all tatoos' are behind the green glass door. The kind of aardvarks we have in Italy are anyway pretty fastish , as a matter of fact so d@mn fast that noone ever saw one of them , they are no problem . Where I live that kind of risk is more related to wild boars and porcupines. Just in case: jaclaz
  19. Well, the essence of the reference is this: http://www.forensicfocus.com/Forums/viewtopic/p=6564426/#6564426 or: http://www.forensicfocus.com/Forums/viewtopic/p=6564423/#6564423 no need to scratch anything (unless you scratch the appropriate area(s) scratching may lead ot only partially unrecoverable data), cutting (or breaking) the CD/DVD in two pieces (no more than two is needed) is simple, fast and effective. And don't forget the disclaimer here : http://www.forensicfocus.com/Forums/viewtopic/p=6564418/#6564418 Or, get a CD shredder, examples: http://www.aleratec.com/shredders.html http://www.shreddingmachines.co.uk/cd_shredders.asp?cat=CD%2FDVD-shredders ( a number of "beefy" generic paper shredders may also do). jaclaz
  20. The booting process has not changed from Vista onwards. The bootsector for a CD/DVD/.iso is etfsboot.com. <- this is an El-Torito no-emulation bootsector You find it in the install .iso under the /boot directory. The bootsector for FAT/FAT32/NTFS partiton is "embedded" and can be installed with bootsect.exe. The bootsectors behaviour is the same, load BOOTMGR, then access the BCD and finally load the WIndows throuigh WINLOAD.EXE. But if you post about the actual problem you are having (as opposed ot a "fraction" of it) , you may receive more complete answers, including info about the use of the (needed) OSCDimg or mkisofs to actually create the .iso, and/or - possibly - about already existing tools/scripts whatever capable of doing that. jaclaz
  21. Well, this is - personally - one of the things that makes me sleep rather well , see: http://www.forensicfocus.com/Forums/viewtopic/t=9811/ http://www.forensicfocus.com/Forums/viewtopic/t=10154/ Though of course NO certainties : http://www.forensicfocus.com/Forums/viewtopic/p=6564426/#6564426 particularly if you have lousy B&W 11 Kb bmp's of Alfred Einstein written all over the CD, n times : http://www.thic.org/pdf/Jun04/UniversityOfArizona.Milster-2-%20Data%20Recovery%20from%20CD-R%20Fragments%20rev%20a.pdf jaclaz
  22. The commonly accepted technique for hammered HD's is to send them via mail to China : http://www.forensicfocus.com/Forums/viewtopic/t=9682/ jaclaz
  23. Wait a minute. If the disk is to be initialized, it means that - as is - it contains NO accessible data (and as such it makes very little sense to scan it for viruses). On "normal" MBR type of disks the "initialize this disk" is triggered by the absence of the "Magic Bytes" 55AA at offset 510 in first sector (the MBR). What the Disk Manager does when you go on is simply to write to the MBR the (specific OS) MBR code (including the Magic Bytes). There is no "difference" (in the sense of "substantial" difference) between the 7 and 8 MBR code, for "normal" booting, BUT there may be incompatibilities if bitlocker and/or hybrid boot is used, AND since you mention a laptop, remember that a number of OEM's use a "special" MBR to give the user the possibility of using the "recovery" partition. I think that thee are no particular issues in using (running on 7) the windows 8 version of bootsect.exe (which has a switch to operate on the MBR too), but the basic issue remains that if the disk was not "wiped" (or damaged) it should NOT need to be initialized. Additionally (and specifically to GPT disks) the status of possible incompatibilities between 7 and 8 (possibly only when AF or 4k sectored disks are involved) is not entirely clear, see: http://www.forensicfocus.com/Forums/viewtopic/t=11431/start=14/ jaclaz
  24. I am not sure to understand. A USB disk drive (or flash stick) *needs* not any particular, specific driver. It is the USB interface (on the PC) that needs those drivers. If you prefer, once a USB port on the PC is functional you can connect to it *any* USB drive. There used to be (and possibly they still exist) "special" drivers for some particular sticks, I remember Buffalo ones that used a special transfer mode to make the data transfer quicker, usually having something like "turbo" in the name, but those sticks worked as well (though slower than when used in conjunction with the specialized drivers) on *any* PC. jaclaz
  25. The {A68CA8B7-004F-D7B6-A698-07E2DE0F1F5D} is Windows Time Service. Cannot say if connected, but here: http://superuser.com/questions/359180/windows-7-clock-jumps-back-about-every-hour-internet-disconnects a similar error was solved replacing the motherboard battery. I would check anyway the Windows Time Service, like stopping it, unregister it, re-registering and re-starting it, and/or keeping it temporarily logged, see: http://blogs.technet.com/b/industry_insiders/archive/2006/08/29/w32-tm-service.aspx jaclaz
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