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For no apparent reason: http://dynamics.org/Altenberg/CURRENT_AFFAIRS/CHINA_PLASTIC/ jaclaz

Yep, this is a known issue. When the 120 day trial of Windows 2000 came out, everyone tested it on their NT 4.00 machine and everyone had the filesystem changed silently. At the time I had to help more people workaround the issue that I would have ever imagined (everyone that had not already updated to SP4). See: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=11383 A NT 4.00 with SP 4 or later won't have issues with the volume if not for CHKDSK, and that needs to be worked around by using the 2K version through the Mark Russinovich mentioned tool NTFSCHK: http://web.archive.org/web/20060819014420/www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/NtfsChk.html I have never used the vamos.de tool, the page can be found through the Wayback Machine as well: https://web.archive.org/web/20021102155538/http://vamos.de/english/bootman2.html#zu_w2 but the tool, having been hosted on ftp, is not. Maybe if you make a thread asking for it, you can find someone that has a backup copy somewhere. jaclaz

Sure , only stating how it is not a "general solution" that *anyone* can use. jaclaz

Not exactly. At least here you don't actually purchase the mobile device, you "lease" it or more properly you subscribe to a service with the carrier that includes the use of the device. I believe that the legal issue is not with "rooting" the device, it is about "rooting a device which you do not "own". (and this is not so slightly different). jaclaz

There is something "queer" in the "custom" install. From what you report it seems like the Windows 7 install "decided" that the first partition was it's own "boot" partition (what MS calls "System) , and that the second partition is the windows 7 "System" partition (what MS calls "boot"), see here: http://www.multibooters.co.uk/system.html for the misnaming. If you open Disk Management, you should be able to see the first partition alright, only it will have NOT a drive letter attributed. You can manually assign a drive letter to that first partition, let's say that you assign to it "F:". In theory it is possible to change the drive letter assigned to the second partition from the current "C:" to "D:", but in practice it is extremely complex and very much error prone (besides the procedures needed not having been tested or tested enough). For these reason it is STRONGLY NOT advised to attempt doing it. What you can do, once you have found which of the two partitions (I tend to believe first one) contains the files \BOOTMGR and \boot\BCD, is to create a DOS bootsector file for it and add to it a good ol' BOOT.INI file invoking that file. To create the DOS bootsector (BTW which version of DOS?) there are a couple utilities available, while the BOOT.INI can be written with Notepad alright. Bootpart: http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm should be able to create the bootsector in file directly (and run on 7 too). As well MBRFIX will be able to create the bootsector (and surely runs under 7): http://www.sysint.no/nedlasting/mbrfix.htm but it can only update the "real" bootsector, so you will need another tool, like the dsfo of the dsfok toolkit: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nulifetv/freezip/freeware/index.html to extract it to file (and then re-use MBRFIX to restore the Windows 7 bootsector). The BOOT.INI should be something like: [boot loader]Timeout=20default=C:\DOS\BOOTSECT.DAT[operating systems]C:\DOS\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft DOS version x.xx"This way DOS will become an entry in the BOOTMGR choices. Or you can use a bootmanager like grub4dos. If you wish to always boot to DOS and from it launch Windows 7, you can also use grub.exe (still part of grub4dos). Since DOS is unaffected by the Windows 7 drive lettering (and in any case it won't be able to see/access the Windows 7 partition, which I presume is NTFS), when you boot to DOS you will see only a drive letter/partition (C:\) corresponding to the first partition and when you boot to 7 you will see instead the second partition as C:\ and you can assign to the DOS partition any other letter. jaclaz

All your hard disk space are belong to us! jaclaz

I wonder if anyone correlated the above data with population and income growth (in less-industrialized countries). Basically they are saying that (2014 over 2010) and (trend for 2018 over 2014), the amount of PC's (in different formats) will double in 8 years (and increases by 50% in 4 years) over 2010's sales. Also this should be seen with actual "life" of the devices. Sure in the "normal" home or "normal" office the life of a device has been in the past on average more than 4 years, but - as we have seen with the longevity of XP possibly even more than that. Most devices were in the past shipped anyway with an "OEM" OS pre-installed, but tablets are right now 100% like that, thus the life of the device will be more "likely" to determinate the life of the OS. I mean, any PC with a Windows OEM installed (or like 90% of them) since 2006 shipped with Vista and since 2009 with Windows 7. Same happened for Windows 8 since late 2012/early 2013 (though in this case the amount of "downgrade rights" actually implemented - legally or otherwise - seems much more relevant than before). Now, what could we do to increase the "turnover" of the OS? Idea #1: let's start selling hardware that is either NOT serviceable or economically not convenient to be serviced, let's engineer it in such a way that most devices will fail right after 1 year (in countries where the Law requires one year warranty) or 2 years (in countries - like EU - where the Law requires 2 years for consumer goods). Idea #2: let's convince people to put all their data in the cloud, and as such reachable by *any* device, as this is also a way to make sure that data is not lost in a local device crash/failure. Idea #3: let's give them a small amount of free cloud data storage and let's bloat everything, without any real need, to grow and grow in size so that soon they will exceed the size of the free storage so that we will be able to make them pay for it. Idea #4: since the above device turnover will produce peaks every one or two years, and the amount we will get from cloud data storage won't be much significant as other companies may offer the same service at competitive prices, let's see if we can "regularize" the company's earnings by little by little making customers pay a flat fee every month (after all this is what all telecommunication companies have managed to do everywhere) in order to use our software. Please consider how those ideas are more or less what any villain from SPECTRE is about in James Bond's movies, world domination and stuff. jaclaz

More than that. Do business users have friends with school accounts @ MS? Will school principals be OK with this use of such school account and hardware/connection? jaclaz

Actually no, even (plastic) coffe cups are a security risk http://www.forensicfocus.com/Forums/viewtopic/t=10944/ but we have better than tinfoil materials nowadays: http://reboot.pro/topic/13177-an-improved-electromagnetical-shielding-device/ jaclaz

Still more practical than flying drones (duffy will love this ) with wi-fi servers! Old news, however : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2117535/The-Pirate-Bay-plans-use-robot-drone-planes-file-sharing-service-running.html jaclaz

JFYI, the original is not even Italian (I mean they are italian words, but they are not Italian they appear to be the result of a google translate or similar). jaclaz

The issue here is not the OS on itself. XP is actually 2000 (with a very few nice things and a full load of bloat and unneeded bells & whistles added to it). I still run several "old" machines with either 2K or XP and the real issue IMHO is amount of RAM needed. With a few tweaks (disabling of not really needed or useful services) the amount of processor and RAM use is comparable BUT as soon as you add an Antivirus (more or less *any* of them) and some of the programs used today, you will soon find yourself in needing to double or triple the RAM. I have a "reference" oldish laptop that multiboots into DOS, Windows Me (yes, I know ), NT 4.00 and Windows 2000 with a Pentium 600Mhz and 128 Mb of RAM that - believe me - has always run smoothly or smoothly enough for doing the things that i needed it for. I tried a "FredDeVorked" (i.e. without IE) XP on it once and it didn't seem that bad either. But I also tried to install on it's 2K system an Antivirus (and not a particularly "resource hungry" one) and use it for some (very "light") internet browsing an BAM! completely unusable, disk swapping at it's best all the time! jaclaz

There is another aspect if we go at car/layman comparisons The point is also like if Ford said in the 1970's: "Ok, our Pinto model has some issues with catching fire in case of relative light collisions, we revised all safety reports, listened what the users said about it's terrible looks and even worse handling/power/speed and thus decided to insist on selling them, with exactly the same defects/issues." Hey wait, this is what they actually did . Quick reminder (this was almost exactly one year ago): http://www.zdnet.com/businesses-cant-use-office-on-windows-rt-tablets-7000005882/ jaclaz

Hmmm... Sh*t happens I thought that Mim0 had mirrored the files too), unfortunately: http://mimo.zxq.net/hfslip-intro.htm Let's wait and see if someone has the file and can upload it. It is possible that some of the thingies tomasz86 made in the meantime make that "extra" unneeded/outdated, though: http://www.windows2000.tk/ jaclaz

https://web.archive.org/web/20131011062749/http://hfslip.org/ https://web.archive.org/web/20100513034907/http://www.hfslip.org/extras.html Actual file can be found here: http://mimo.zxq.net/hfslip-intro.htm http://mimo.zxq.net/yellow/downloads.htm jaclaz

Hmmm, you must be a speed reader or have a slowish machine. Seriously , inserting some kind of loop/delay between the echo and the exit command may be not a totally absurd idea. For the record: http://ss64.com/nt/choice.html so, anyone with XP (or earlier) may have issues with it's use. If an external something is needed/wanted, the choice.exe from FreeDOS should work on those: http://winsupport.org/utilities/freedos-choice.html jaclaz

Well, what would have been the alternative, stealing 'em rights? jaclaz

@Steve Thanks, though at first sight I am failing to see why you are not using a FOR /L loop. Also, how long does the message: Sync cancelled. Logging off...stay visible on screen? jaclaz

For the record, a large part of the world does drink good coffee (of course NOT in ether Dunkin Donuts or Starbucks, but in real coffee shops/bars). Not so much unrelated to the way economical results of companies are presented or commented and to be tagged as part of Mr. La Palisse Corner: http://www.nber.org/papers/w19429 unfortunately the article is not free , unless you are from US Government or a journalist or live in a third world country (the political correct term is "developing country or transition economy"). The list of such countries - last updated in 1999 - includes (among many others): Andorra, Lichtenstein, Vatican City State, Gibraltar, San Marino <- among the countries with the higher income pro-capitaArgentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Panama and Venezuela Iceland and GreenlandAll ex-URSS countriesChinaIndiaSingapore and Hong KongCzech Republic, Slovenia, RomaniaTurkeyI guess that something has changed in the world economy and the good guys over there (which by trade do high level studies on world society and it's economy, National Bureau of Economic Research) didn't have any time in the last 14 years to change the pricing policy and/or update the list of "countries in need that may be exempted". Basically if you are not one of the "elected", you'll have to fork from 5 bucks to have the pleasure to read the whole set of totally obvious considerations interesting article choking full of new findings, or use any proxy residing in one of the listed countries. Still for Mr. La Palisse Corner, but this time really OFF TOPIC http://www.nber.org/papers/w19521 jaclaz

It seems to me like Ponch "knows your question" alright. The issue here is that it seems like you "know not your question" (and it is not that re-asking it in the exact same way and without providing any meaningful detail will help much). Q.Can a standard windows XP Setup work in UDF? A1. A suffusion of yellow. A2. Try it and you will see if it does. A3. Who knows? A standard XP setup CD is CDFS (and NOT UDF) and there is not one reason in the worlds to try if it works as UDF. (as it already works as CDFS) Q. You mean that the "standard" Windows XP setup won't work in UDF or that the particular modified Windows XP setup I put together into a single 5 Gb .exe file(and that I won't detail how exactly I made) won't work? A1. Both, as a double suffusion of yellow (with some touches of orange). A2. Try them and you will see if they do. A3. Who knows? Noone ever made a single 5 Gb .exe file from a Windows XP setup. You are a pioneer in the field. Semi-random stuff: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321640/en-us http://support.microsoft.com/kb/899527/en-us http://club.myce.com/f61/need-udf-file-handler-win-xp-277044/ jaclaz

More generally, it seems to me like you are slipping on a chocolate covered banana http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/put-down-the-chocolate-covered-banana.html Try describing what your final GOAL is (as opposed on asking how to solve an issue coming from a procedure that you think would be needed/useful to reach it). Or, if you really want to continue on that particular path, provide the Standard Litany, please: http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/problem-report-standard-litany.html For the record, a CD or DVD does not normally have any actual "partition", it is usually a single volume, thus it may have a "filesystem", which can be CDFS or UDF commonly, but it is also possible (for largish files or if needed for any other reason) to use Hard Disk Emulation INSTEAD (this latter will actually have a partition and the filesystem of this partition can be any among FAT and NTFS). jaclaz

That tends to be an error (like electrical interference or bad/intermittent contact) in the actual cable/connector (SATA in this case). As an example, it was typical of ATA66+ IDE hard disk drives on 40 pin cable I would verify contacts/connector and try replacing the cable, before anything else. jaclaz

On other news (not really news, actually ) Linus Torvalds politely explained why exactly adding secureboot related features to the Linux kernel is not such a great idea: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/02/linus-torvalds-i-will-not-change-linux-to-deep-throat-microsoft/ and in some more recent ones , how random values should actually be random and NOT generated by a dedicated (proprietary) hardware: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/10/torvalds_on_rrrand_nsa_gchq/ jaclaz

According to my rough calculations, on 3rd June 2014 anyone will be able to get US $100,00 in cash if they collect a Surface RT from a Microsoft Store... jaclaz

Good. (which means bad ) So - since it doesn't work as well on another PC we can exclude that is anything connected to the OS (or it's Registry). And evidently also not the case (all parts of it) since the same disk in another case also fails to work. Next thing is to check if the drive is operational (it spins). For this test normally you can hear it (the motor whirls) as soon as you provide power to the case, if you are in a silent environment. If you hold the drive in your hand (flat/horizontal) and try to move it in a vertical position and back, you should feel "nothing" when the drive is powered off, while you should be able to feel the "gyroscopic effect", i.e. you will feel a kind of resistance while attempting to turning it. When you power it you may also hear/feel some "clicks" if there are none or just one or two it's ok, if more than that (like 8 or 11) there is an issue but it is another one . If the disk spins (and doesn't click), the next test needs a direct (SATA) connection to a (desktop) motherboard header (you might need a SATA internal cable), it is better if you also hook the disk to the PC PSU power header (i.e. do not connect - unless really needed - a disk powered through an "external" power supply directly to a motherboard SATA header). The idea is that once you boot the PC, you press DEL/F1/or whatever key is used on that PC to access the BIOS and try to detect hard disks. If it is NOT found, it may be a BSY (or BUSY) state. If it is found, but reported as 0 in size, it may be a LBA0 state. If it is found, but with some gibberish instead of a "senceful" device name/size is an alltogether different issueFor #1 or #2 the (hopefully) solution might be in the "monster thread" you already posted to, BUT you do not really need to read that thread, if you just read: the Read-me-first: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/143880-seagate-barracuda-720011-read-me-first/the FGA's: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/147532-fga-for-the-seagate-720011-drives/and Carter in Canada guide: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/133387-debricking-the-seagate-drives/will be enough. After reading those, you should have a fair idea of the procedure and methods, and if you have further questions/doubts, you can post them (here or on the "mega thread"). jaclaz