jaclaz

Sure, but it is a kind of "simplified" message evidently aimed to "simpler" minds, for an adult public, it would have been something more similar to these, IMHO: http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-photos-man-tearing-off-his-shirt-image29182678 http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-60250054/stock-photo-good-morning-woman-in-bedroom-beside-window.html?src=p-84162844-1 http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18n6zocjlt5w6jpg/original.jpg jaclaz

Not really. It confirms that the "average user" is a 5 year old kid (or it is considered as so) according to Lenovo and Pokki. Heck! That image seems to jump out from a book I had pre-school about a smart, knowledgeable squirrel (with spectacles) that knew everything and provided answers to common children's questions.... jaclaz

grldr as no emulation CD: CD not bootable <-this sounds "logical" NT default bootsect.bin edited to load grldr as no emulation CD: CD not bootable <-this also sounds "logical" grub4dos 0.4.2 floppy image written as floppy emulation: grldr not found <- this less so I mean, such "pesky" BIOSes did have issues with no-emulation boot CD's, the "plainer" El-Torito floppy emulation has much more chances to work, what about a "plain" DOS floppy (with added to it grldr)? If I am to attribute (from common sense and experience) probabilities to the bootability of CD Rom's (on BIOSes with rudimental support for it) I would say: Floppy emulation <- 98.24% no-emulation <- 91.42% hard disk emulation <-68.77% If you remember the good ol' times, the original NT 4.00 install CD was NOT bootable... and in the "transition" from BIOSes that did not support CD-ROM booting and the ones that boot *any* CD, the use of BCDL was common. Just to remind how even Qemu did not directly support hard disk emulation: http://reboot.pro/topic/3890-project-etboot/page-2 http://reboot.pro/topic/3890-project-etboot/?p=29314 (but still what I was suggesting originally to the OP was to try booting from the DOM that is - to all effects - a (very small) internal hard disk) BTW, it seems that with our talking we must have scared the OP . jaclaz

Stopping the development of a "private" unsupported tool because official support for the base will be stopped 9 months from now? Wouldn't it be a bit like stopping making spare parts for cars that will go out of production next year?. jaclaz

Hmmm, it seems like that the designer/interior decorator that used to work for Ikea and MacDonald's (and that was fired for LSD use) has found a new job. jaclaz

No D-tubes involved, much later models, K-tubes were used, AFACR. jaclaz

Oww, come on, it is clearly a check and egg scenario. jaclaz

Personally, quite comfortable . Comeon , this is one of those topics you cannot touch without starting a flame war if you are looking for "popularity" you may want to start a poll, otherwise what you will get will be "anecdotal evidence", about people that is running Windows 9x without any form of antivirus and never got one, but you cannot base yourself on that, as you cannot know how "smart", "knowledgeable" and "attentive" the user is, it is well possible that his/her activities on the PC are "low risk" and that that is the reason for the apparent lack of security failures. jaclaz

But still the IMHO simpler original idea of making use of the DOM and make an "XP Kansas City Shuffle" could work? Another idea, maybe crazy. What really happens when the disk bigger than 32 Gb is connected? Tests: install (or however boot from) grub4dos (on the DOM or anyway from "accessible" boot media)what does grub4dos "sees" of the second >32 Gb hard disk? (does it sees it, what is the result of the geometry command?)is the size of the first partition relevant/changes anything in the way the disk is seen?would *somehow* the cdrom manual mapping through cdrom --init change anything? (or would SBM http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/about.html be able to do anything?)jaclaz

A failure of teh internets? jaclaz

I have seen experiments involving a resublimated thiotimoline approach: http://asimov.info/the-endochronic-properties-of-resublimated-thiotimoline aiming to install XP in -22 seconds.... jaclaz

More than "narrowed" we have found how the general rule applies. The good guys at IPB have evidently decided - changing them at every other release and thus messing up half existing boards of the net, to add a kind of "overlay" of "friendly" syntax to the board software "native" one. So that, just like happened for threads friendly names, more than once, there is a on-the-fly translation, which - besides most probably adding senselessly load to the server - often fails. As soon as you find a way to provide a "more direct" link (i.e. bypassing the - often, as in this case, botched - "translation overlay") you get where you wanted to go. The accident that happened to them, unfortunately, is of a kind that it is improbable that it's consequences can be cured, more details on the (loosely) related "botched reboot.pro CODE converter page": http://pastehtml.com/view/b4t99xk89.html A (nice) experiment is the following: If you want a link to this thread, you would have: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/163472-ipb-update-july-2013-to-version-345-bugs-only/ but (say) this will resolve as well): http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/163472-ipb- and also this: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/163472- but not this: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/163472 Of course the "right" way is: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=163472 that will always "get you" here. jaclaz

I am not sure to understand the situation, I am not familiar with DDO's. The issue with the size bigger than 32 Gb is with which value? I mean once the XP has booted (from the partition contained into the first 32 GB) can it access the "\\.\phisicaldrive" beyond the 32 GB? jaclaz

Good jaclaz

Currently the easiest solution - as I see it - is Serva: http://www.vercot.com/~serva/ jaclaz

Well, no. The idea is that once you have the "right" file association set you remove from the key the privileges to edit/access the key, leaving access to the key ONLY allowed to a given "named" user account (of course NOT the one you use and you might need to remove also "SYSTEM"). Though everything is possible, I doubt that that program will be able to find and impersonate another user. Once the program will not be able to write anymore to that key (or wipe it) there are two possibilities: this will cause a crash/malfunctioning of the program this will be ignored and the program will continue working alright.What I forgot to mention (my bad, I gave it for already known fact) is that HKEY_Classes_Root doesn't really "exists" , it is an on-the-fly "mirror" of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes, you might need to set the permissions there instead. jaclaz

Are you sure that setup is involved in any way in the project? jaclaz

You are sitting apparently on a small fortune. jaclaz

Well, yes and no, IMHO. Meaning yes , it is logical (and practical) to use "native" tools to do "native" work, but no , in some cases it is needed to use an "alien" tool. I will even go further, affirming that when you access a NTFS (or more generally *any* filesystem) with "external" tools you usually have the possibilities to access things/parts that would be otherwise inaccessible. (this is more about filesystem/files recovery than actual antivirus) To "clean" an infected system, the "common" and "logical" (and easier) choice is to run a "full scan" from the antivirus installed on the actual system, but you will have a number of things "running in the background" that may prevent you from completely cleaning/repairing it. The next "common" and "logical" thing would be to scan the disk from a PE of some kind, that already gives an added degree of freedom. Still, the possibility to do a scan from a "completely alien" OS guarantees that *nothing* on th einfected machine can be executed, not even by chance or by mistake. I do agree that it is not the "first" thing to do as the other two mentioned ways will work in - say - 98.34% of case - but still it is something that should not be considered as "last chance", but rather like a concrete possibility. jaclaz

Because the Linux NTFS drivers via FUSE that all the world senselessly uses since several years do not see Alternate Data Streams, right? http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-manual/ http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-manual/#5 http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-faq/ jaclaz

Consider it done! Here on MSFN we simply love to deliver e-mails to unknown people on behalf of other unknown people. Seriously, now, go to this page: can you see the "Download preset: ultimate_relaxing.bwg"? can you see that it creates a link like: try making out of it a link like: jaclaz

Who knows? You do it, and you have the answer, you fail at it and you have as well an answer. Who knows? In theory nothing is impossible. jaclaz

Most probably, yes. jaclaz

Why don't you ask for help to Steve6375, which is the Author of that tutorial/guide? He's usually active on Reboot.pro, which is the SEMI-official support forum for RMPREPUSB and related. http://reboot.pro/ BTW, the tutorial you linked to is #02 and IT IS CLEARLY STATED on that page how it is SUPERSEDED/REPLACED by tutorial #43 AND on the linked page it CLEARLY refers to bootland (now reboot.pro): http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=8043&view=findpost&p=68050 for discussion about that method You may to want to try the updated #43, first: http://www.rmprepusb.com/tutorials/firawiniso jaclaz

Good news :. I am DYING of the curiosity of looking at ハイドン's profile! : http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/163472-ipb-update-july-2013-to-version-345-bugs-only/?p=1046789 @dencorso jaclaz P.S.: What would happen if you click here?