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Well, reboot.pro (was bootland) has been the UNofficial grub4dos support site since what? 2006 , and it is mostly written in English. You still seem to me like missing a vital piece of info. A CD is a .iso and a .iso is a CD. As well, a DVD is a .iso and a .iso is a DVD. A .iso is a byte-by-byte/sector-by-sector image of a CD or DVD, you just "copy" (in jargon "burn") it as-is to the CD or DVD media. You want normally to make a .iso (with mkisofs or oscdimg, or other tool) and then burn the .iso image, that's the whole point. On the other thread: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/171350-textsetup-wont-accept-nlite-dvd/ you failed to follow the link, given here: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/171350-textsetup-wont-accept-nlite-dvd/?p=1072211 to this thread on 911CD: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=24562 where (specifically here: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?s=&showtopic=24562&view=findpost&p=169834 ) it is explained what to do, i.e. burning the .iso image with IMGBURN following this: http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=61 guide. I know that sometimes my suggestions/links lead to other places where other links are given where other links are given, etc..... but this way, if one has the patience to follow through them, gets more info. Of course there are n tools capable of burning a .iso image, the important thing is to understand the concept above (a CD is a .iso and a .iso is a CD), and IMGBURN has proved over the years to be very reliable (besides being freeware and fairly small). And of course every one has his/her own ways, Steve6375, as an example, lives in the future and suggests always latest, experimental versions , whilst I - living in the past - tend to always suggest known, tested, reliable versions . jaclaz

Well, if you take some time actually READing the provided info, you will see how you fell in the usual misunderstanding: http://reboot.pro/topic/9696-oscdimg-and-grub4dos/?p=84356 This: is a commonly used/referenced set of command line switches to make a grub4dos/grldr booting .iso, but it won't in any way work for a PE or Windows XP install, and not necessarily it is a good "source" to extract and copy the boot files on another .iso (made with a completely different set of command parameters). As it was already suggested to you, you should NEVER edit .iso's, but rather create them in one single pass. Again, this does not mean that it won't work, only that you are looking for troubles as it is probable that it won't work. This is particularly true when using grldr as "boot sector" (or isolinux for that matters) as they are bigger than 4*512 bytes sectors=1*2048 bytes sector (the size of a common no-emulation CD/DVD bootsector), compare with this : http://reboot.pro/topic/12406-editing-iso-files/ and please review the specific information provided about "-boot-load-seg 0x1000" vs. "-boot-load-size 4" Get a decently recent version of grub4dos, like the one cdob suggested you, the version you have is seemingly "the changelog file is dated: 2009-06-20(r68)" an ancient, preliminary (and rejnown to be buggy) 0.4.4 version (the only 0.4.4 version that you could use is the one dated 16/10/2009), see: http://reboot.pro/topic/14-grub4dos/ but nowadays you should use ONLY: the latest version cdob suggested: http://code.google.com/p/grub4dos-chenall/downloads/detail?name=grub4dos-0.4.5c-2014-01-17.7z&can=2&q= OR the latest "featured" version: http://code.google.com/p/grub4dos-chenall/downloads/detail?name=grub4dos-0.4.5c-2013-03-03.7z&can=2&q= Which brings you back to the given links. jaclaz

Most probably that is what the blogger meant, still, for all these years if a file was read only, you would have needed to run ATTRIB on it to change it's attributes (or do the same through GUI) in order to save it (or you would be forced to save the edited version to another file name). jaclaz

See: http://reboot.pro/topic/9446-problems-making-grub4dos-dvd-with-mkisofs/ AND given links. Or have a look here: http://reboot.pro/topic/9696-oscdimg-and-grub4dos/ particularly my post: http://reboot.pro/topic/9696-oscdimg-and-grub4dos/?p=84348 Additionally, check the actual mkisofs in use, see: http://reboot.pro/topic/19660-use-drivetofile-to-make-a-bootable-vhd-iso-bin-image-from-a-pen-drive/?p=183011 jaclaz

That's NeoWin's chief MetroTard Brad Sams again. Yes he really uses that phrase: "Office is the real deal"! Actually it's not, it is not much more than the traditional Word/Excel/Powerpoint VIEWERS that Microsoft keeps releasing. But we'll get back to this later I'm sure. Let the suffering commence ... It already commenced http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/03/28/microsoft_already_pointing_out_bugs_in_office_for_ipad/ but the good MS guys managed to find a workaround .... http://blogs.technet.com/b/bgp/archive/2014/03/27/unable-to-open-powerpoint-files-from-a-sharepoint-2010-on-an-ipad.aspx Please note how it is just a (though authoritative) blog post, not a real "Sorry chaps, we didn't though of this, temporarily use this workaround, we'll fix it with an update as soon as possible" kind of thing. If anyone can translate this: I would be happy (so many years in the field and I had always thought that you cannot have an edit and save option for a read only file ) jaclaz

In any case it is a non-problem, now both the loblo's .7z (compatible with 9.20 which is NOT alpha) and a .zip version are available. jaclaz

See if this applies: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2566263/en-us jaclaz

Maybe they are odd-ball in your (restricted ) "windows world". JFYI, for years there have been (in the Windows world, not in the Linux/Unix one) two main compression format: the free use/documented ZIP format the Commercial, proprietary RAR formatRAR format is much more "tight" than the ZIP format. To create /and decompress) ZIP archives there are tens of free or freeware tools. To create a RAR file you need a proprietary (licensed) version or Rar or WinRar (while to decompress them there is availabel a freeware UNrar). 7-zip is completely free and freeware and offers: ZIP compatibility (both for compressing an decompressing)RAR compatibility (to decompress only)7z new format which is "tighter" (i.e it results in smaller archives) than RAR and much more so when compared to ZIP7-zip also opens a number of other nowadays common formats, like the (coming from Linux/Unix) .tar.gz and .bz2 but more than that, also .iso images, hard disk and floppy and superfloppy images .img and - recently - .wim images, and as the title imples "7-zip File Manager" it is also a file manager, optionally offering an almost orthodox dual pane interface. (btw it also decompress the (coming from DOS) .lzh format in which the original Japanese versions of the Registry tools are. The actual result is: Anyone looking for "maximum compatibility" (at the cost of having bigger archives) is using ZIP format.Anyone looking for "maximum compression" and unaware of 7-zip is using WinRAR (having acquired a valid license for it)Anyone looking for "maximum compression" that learned about 7-zip, switched to it, because of the tighter compression and because of the added features, very handy in common use.Anyone really looking for "real maximum compression" is using (if he/she can afford it) WinRK or anyone among several PAQ8 based really "esoteric" or "uncommon" formats, such as nanozipIf you want some reference on the matter, see here http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/165454-winrar-5-wow/ and please , don't try using Google results (or statistics coming from your machine) about popularity : http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/158046-menu-selector-for-dos-based-programs-on-same-cd/?p=1008738 However, please find attached Regutils.7z unpacked to Regutils and re-packed (by 7-zip ) into Regutils.zip. jaclaz RegUtils.zip

That is the issue, it is an obsolete version. The "minimum" now is 9.20 (though cannot say if it works on 9x/KerneleX, but it should): http://www.7-zip.org/ jaclaz

The only issue that may exist is in case of very large .iso image size. I have not checked the mkisofs.exe that comes with current nlite, it should be fine, but it is possible that you may need to replace it with a more modern build, see: (seemingly unrelated thread): http://reboot.pro/topic/19660-use-drivetofile-to-make-a-bootable-vhd-iso-bin-image-from-a-pen-drive/ and: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/171350-textsetup-wont-accept-nlite-dvd/ http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/171350-textsetup-wont-accept-nlite-dvd/?p=1072315 jaclaz

Sure, and with me that makes two of us (I downloaded it and re-uploaded it attached to post #8). I am using 7-zip 9.30 Alpha. 7-zip format is however IMHO the de facto modern standard (modern when compared to PKZIP). Nomen can you try downloading the attached one to see if behaves the same? jaclaz

Yep and, before I forget, a few words of warning, remember that Voltaire (long before Peter Parker's uncle Ben ) said: and - to be fair - the concept is also in Luke 12:48 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+12%3A48&version=KJV Kids, don't play with System or TrustedInstaller at home! jaclaz

I was just joking, hence the emoticons. However, if you took this as offensive in any way, I apologize to you , as it wasn't meant as such . I will gladly reword the sentence as : jaclaz

The even stranger thing is that noone (or very, very few) know how to use Word or Excel (which by now are like 15 years old and haven't changed that much in functionalities) besides writing a (badly formatted/punctuated) simple letter or put together a (totally unclear) simple columnar report (often with "typed numbers" and not "formulas", let alone "proper" ones). I see it a lot like those people that spend big money on a supercar and then cannot drive it properly. I have run for years (to candidates that had in their curricula stated "good Excel (or Office) knowledge") a simple test, i.e. create a simple multiply table from 1 to 10 in the least possible number of steps (either key presses or mouse actions), i.e. recreate this: http://www.mathsisfun.com/multiplication-table-10-bw.html in Excel. No real time limit given, say 15-20 minutes to think and make some tests. I can make it fine in 33 of such "moves" (i believe that the real minimum is 30 or so ), it is rare the case of a candidate that can make it in less than 100, most often tens or hundreds more. Same goes for Word, ask anyone in your office to make a "common" template for your business letters and use the "mail merge" feature to send it to a few people in a contacts/address list... jaclaz

Well, that depends on the intensity of the cats. jaclaz

The diagnosis is: *something* does NOT work in the disk that is not working There are 3 (three) possibilities: it is a BSY <- in this case it is possible that the procedure to exit BSY state may work it is a LBA0 <- in this case it is possible that the procedure to exit LBA0 state may work it is *any* other malfunctioning different from BSY and LBA0 <- we have NO idea of any procedure (if existing, and if existing without needing specialized proprietary software/hardware) that may workI hope the above is clear enough. jaclaz

Sure, but - to be picky - the "elevate.exe" does not actually "elevate", it is a form of "Run As" (Administrator with UAC), and - to all practical effects - can be replaced by a few lines of script (thus saving much of the 5 Kb) Something *like*: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2007.06.utilityspotlight.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/elevationpowertoys/archive/2010/06/20/creating-a-self-elevating-script.aspx http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-1855254/batch-file-elevates.html http://www.cammckenzie.com/blog/index.php/2013/01/16/elevate-uac-admin-rights-for-a-batch-file/ Or, something that I would advise to anyone actually fiddling on Windows machines with command line and batches, get Nircmd: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html NIRCMD.exe elevate command In other words, whilst the elevate.exe is a nice thingy to have not the stupid right click->Run As Administrator, it doesn't provide "extra" powers, while being System (or TrustedInstaller) does provide them. jaclaz

For some reasons, I cannot see the attachment in the post, here it is: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?app=core&module=attach&section=attach&attach_rel_module=post&attach_id=38121 The error is related to XCOPY.EXE which is not found (in that folder or in your PATH). jaclaz

Well, actually we can elevate to a much higher level as System or even as TrustedInstaller : http://reboot.pro/topic/17501-runassystem-and-runfromtoken/ http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/155910-taking-back-the-registry-from-trustedinstaller/ jaclaz

We are talking of this, right? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Universal_Print_Driver And you are looking for something which is #4.7.2.38 (February 2009) < hypothetical HP UPD < # 5.0.0.106 (July 2009), do I have this right? jaclaz

: Would this be of use? L2TP/IPSec: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff687761(v=ws.10).aspx http://torguard.net/knowledgebase.php?action=displayarticle&id=67 Also, any reason why you cannot ask directly to the "someone" who is sending you the PSK? jaclaz

Well, noone said "the DISM improvements that MagicAndre1981 failed to post news about in a timely fashion on msfn.org", only "scarcely publicized" (meaning by the good MS guys). I can find alright traces of them in your posts: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/150347-win-7-ignorant-please-help/ http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/167877-important-update-for-windows-7-to-cleanup-updates/ http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/153742-dism-improvements-in-windows-8/ But I am failing to see the point What I believed were "news" were just: http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2014/03/06/what-s-new-in-windows-servicing-part-1.aspx the others were just "background info". jaclaz

HECK! Even when they do the right thing, the manage to make it *somehow* wrong. Preamble: DLL Hell was HELLWinSxS is pure Evil (not in itself, but in the way it is setup/used)The news are that besides the (much needed but scarcely publicized) CleanUp tool for Windows 7 which came with KB2852386: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2852386/en-us and with the /spsuperseded DISM option (still in Windows 7 SP1) (and in addition to the also scarcely publicized DISM /online options in 8.1): http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn251565.aspx The good guys at MS have decided to AUTOMATE the cleanup Here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2014/03/06/what-s-new-in-windows-servicing-part-1.aspx I am sure that a lot of people will appreciate this effort to simplify their lives , I am much less convinced of the practical outcome IF something goes wrong . jaclaz

Pittsburgh? See what happened in London: http://history1900s.about.com/od/1950s/qt/greatsmog.htm jaclaz

A good idea where Junctions or Symbolic links are involved, is to use the nice Nirsoft thingie NTFSLinksView here: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/ntfs_links_view.html jaclaz