jaclaz

Defeat (or giving up) is NEVER an option . All automated tools (for obvious reasons) tend to work alright with an "original", not modified source. The "fully up to date XP x64 DVD" is AFAICU a (nice) very modified source, no particular surprise that a "standard" tool cannot work properly with a "non-standard" source. It is very possible that a few changes are needed (and are enough) in order to use one of those tools, but XP 64 is (no offence whatever intended ) a "not-so-common" OS and while I am sure that Ilko or JFX or Steve6375 (to name a few of those that are around here) would be happy to help, they would need cooperation for testing from someone with a 64 XP (standard) and a 64 XP ("fully up to date"). If you are game, I am pretty sure that if you post a request here: http://www.msfn.org/board/forum/157-install-windows-from-usb/ and be a diligent party in the testing some of the good guys would help you. BTW, there is at least one report that the "usual" method of Firadisk or Winvblock (of course the 64 bit version) do work for installing: http://reboot.pro/topic/9830-universal-hdd-image-files-for-xp-and-windows-7/page-36#entry163260 and Sardu is said to be compatible with XP64: http://reboot.pro/topic/14768-new-release-of-sardu-204-beta-16/ jaclaz

JFYI, there is much more reason to be sad about the ReactOS development, they IMHO completely missed a logical, prgmatical approach and spent an incredible amount of (otherwise exceptionally good) resources and talent without advancing a single bit in practice, but your blue screens have nothing to do with NTFS. NTFS is just a filesystem, a live CD without NTFS support won't be able to access a NTFS volume, that's all, no reason why it should Blue Screen because of it. jaclaz

Maybe useful, maybe not: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/137714-install-xp-from-a-ram-loaded-iso-image/?p=895361 http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/120444-how-to-install-windows-from-usb-winsetupfromusb-with-gui/?p=1005836 jaclaz

Ah well, no. Now that my "gut feeling" is confirmed (partially) the bug is described and Xper (when he has time as this is a very-non-relevant issue) may have a look abiut it. As well the "View new Content" automagically going to "new members" is only a nuisance. The botched post numbering/referencing (post #2 in this thread) has IMHO a much greater priority. jaclaz

I'm not sure what you mean by non-existing time. Isn't that referring to 14 minutes after midnight and 10:20 AM the same morning, ie a 10 hour and 6 minute time period? EDIT: I had 1 new conversation in my inbox just now, ie your response, so for me at least, it seems to working correctly. But apparently from your experience, not consistently. Cheers and Regards Ooops, sorry, I thought you sent the two messages within a short delay (one or two hours at the most) and that there were issues with times. My bad . I take it back. Maybe this only happens if you get TWO messages by the SAME person (and thus going into the same "conversation")? I will try to send you TWO messages in short succession, please check if you get a notification with "2" or just 1. jaclaz

I think there is an indicator. I sent you a test PM so that you can verify it. Cheers and Regards We (thanks bhlpt ) made a few tests. His first message did not "trigger" anything (but since I had a tab opened on my messenger this, though stupid, may be considered "normal"). I replied to his message and he replied to mine with a message that appears in my messenger as: Sent Today, 12:14 AM (please take note of the date/time) Since I was offline, I didn't saw that/replied to it. So bhplt sent me another message, that appears in my messenger as: Sent Today, 10:20 AM This morning when I accessed the board forum homepage I had: You have 1 new conversations in your inbox and I had a small red square with a 1 in it just over the "envelop icon". I replied to bhlpt with a message that appears as: Sent Today, 10:57 AM Unless something was fixed in the non-existing time between Today, 12:14 AM and Today, 10:20 AM, there is still something "queer" going on. jaclaz

Now, this is cool: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/107217-real-life-constructicon-quadcopter-robots-being-developed jaclaz

And related articles written by journalists that have had an amusing past as fishermen: http://www.wtsp.com/news/article/320724/19/Gallinippers-Giant-mosquito-invasion-Nope-just-another-Florida-critter It all reminds me the original Calvin's report on bats: http://mimosasonthefrontlawn.blogspot.it/2009/02/bats-arent-bugs.html jaclaz

And no particularly good music came from it, additionally. jaclaz

Two more: Unless I am mistaken (and please consider this as "to be confirmed" ) there is not anymore a "visible" or "highlighted" or "obvious" notification of PM received. Once you have read a PM, if you click on "View New Content" the board decides on it's own will that I am interested to "new content" in section "Members".This should be easily repeatable: Click on "View new Content when on *any* page of the ForumMake sure that you have checked "Forums " in "by content type" and "past 24 hours" in "by time period"Click again on "View new content"Click on the "envelope like" icon top left (which BTW senselessly provides a help tip of "messenger"* - see note below) and click on (say) "View all messages"Click again on "View new Content"The result is you that you have the list of "Members" and actually those that are "New since my last visit"Note (OT but not much): I do know how picky I am, and sometimes I also overdo it, but the old board (in the old version) had something that made sense, i.e. things were named with their proper names, a PM was a PM there were an Inbox and Sent Items folder, etc. Now the two have been migrated/merged into one only (since a few releases) called "my conversations". So we have something that is called "messenger" that does not contain "messages" but rather conversations" (but you still "Search messages" and have a "messenger quota" containing "messages"). When you filter them (to have something like it was before) you filter messages as "All conversations", "Conversations I started" or as "Conversations other started". I don't know if anyone can understand the kind of difficulties a new user not particularly familiar with English might find in the above. BTW a conversation - by definition - is oral or through spoken words: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/conversation

--JorgeA With all due respect to Mr. Jimmy Thang : jaclaz

Anyway, here is the "main" reference: http://web.archive.org/web/20100121020816/http://www.911cd.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=12326 Later, a Winimize project was made, ideas/tips/tricks/news/references, etc. are likely to be found here: http://reboot.pro/topic/18728-winimize-site-restored/ http://reboot.pro/forum/53-winimize/ And here: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/140391-windows-98-live-cd-project-update/ Here is a video tutorial (base - might not work if too much RAM or too fast processor is in the machine, see the stickies for solutions): jaclaz

Actually, it has been (was) a nightmare to find a way to boot a 2K or XP from a USB pendrive (you seem to forget that until Dietmar's findings in 2006 noone ever made it). Comparatively, running a USB with Windows 9x is relatively simple and there were solutions for it since some time. Right now the 911CD forum is (for whatever reason) down, I'll see if I can find some relevant links through Wayback Machine. BUT the OP (or his post) is confused/confusing. Using the SATA patch (if needed) or configuring the BIOS as IDE compatibility mode I remember not any problem with SATA disks , the real thing is (I know that I will be flamed for this ) on modern hardware it makes a lot of sense to run Win9X/ME inside a VM as it is much easier than getting all the various patches for new hardware, have it work, etc., etc. A Win9x/Me inside a VM is - say - normally running at 1/3 to 1/2 the speed it would run "natively" on the host machine, but this would be anyway as fast or faster than what an original "top level" machine would have run it in the years it was "mainstream". jaclaz

But the cloud as "de-localized" backup or "redundant copy" seems to me a very good idea . (and the risks are limited) The foolishness represented is that of the cloud in this "modern" concept of having "everything" (as opposed to a copy or backup) *somewhere* in the hands of *someone* (and senselessly moving back and forth bytes at an anyway much slower than "local lan" speed). jaclaz

Well, yes and no. That would be comparable to a "glitch in the matrix", a temporary hiccup, not unlike a dead phone/dsl line or a Server hard disk failing abruptly. Something that can be restored/fixed within a few hours or at the very most one-two days. It's when you don't know WHERE exactly your DATA is and WHO EXACTLY is responsible for it that the problem may come out. You cannot use the Big ones (because of the seen problems with privacy/government snooping/etc.). You cannot use the Middle sized ones (because they will have costs so high that they will most probably sub-franchise to smaller operators, John Doe's like, that will have your data placed in a single location - i.e subject to any kind of physical damage - and/or might go out of business over the night ) You cannot use the Small sized ones (because they are ALREADY John Doe ). You cannot anyway actually trust anyone of them, so you will need to have a replicating service (possibly with hosts surely in another country and/or location), provided that you actually know where the actual "main" cloud provider physical hard disks are located (and then again your data will be more subject to snooping by either the government or the guys of the replicating service. Also, let's say that a cloud provider (good, solid company, in perfect good faith) has your data together with those of a parallel (say) web activity like file hosting. Let's say that the "file hosting" branch (right or wrong) is implied/connected with hosting/providing download of Copyright protected files (or any other crime connected activity). What would happen when the US DOJ notices it and the FBI (or whomever) shuts down the service? Or if the Police seizes the whole server farm "as is"? I would guess that among the people using Megaupload (to make a known example) there were also good guys making a perfectly legitimate use of the file hosting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaupload#Other_reactions jaclaz

NO. Drive letter assignment is ONLY linked to: Disk Signature Offset of the volume on the diskand NOTHING else (no matter the bus/connection). If you do not change those two pieces of data, Windows won't change drive letter assignment. And in any case, with the exception of the volume from which windows is booted from you can manually assign/reassign drive letters alright. The drive letter assignment is through HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices . There will be two keys in it, one with the Volume GUID and one with the drive letter, BOTH containing the SAME data (in the case of an internal hard disk). These data is detailed here (through Wayback Machine as right now the 911CD Forum is down ): http://web.archive.org/web/20130530045307/http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=19663 Nothing has changed since 2K. A Volume GUID: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365248(v=vs.85).aspx though not really "unique" has a very low chance of collision and AFAIK it's generation is time/machine dependent (and not bus/interface). jaclaz

In other words you are expecting to have complete, articulated answers in reply to vague/undocumented/taken out of context questions (which normally can - at the most - provoke Yes/No answers). And you are doing this without really wanting to learn about the topic, you just want a nice, clean, clear, summing up in order to back an argument on another forum, possibly citing it with the same vague "Some say that....". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stig#Introductions Hmmm, yes it looks a lot like it. jaclaz

Well, no. You can't use the words "Ms word" and "fast search" in a same sentence. You cannot even have "Ms Word" and just "fast", obviously. jaclaz

No. All this time you should have provided better cooling to the system components. The "alarm" is there for a reason, and it is set to "75" for a reason , and unless it is triggered by a defect at a much lower temperature, it should stay ON and the components should be kept cooler than the set threshold. The whole concept of safeties is that they should NEVER be removed/turned off, and when an alarm starts bugging you, you should remove the cause of the alarm, and not switch the alarm off, if not temporarily while trouble shooting (or if you really know where your towel is). jaclaz

Trip, you need to make up your mind. A clone is EITHER a clone or is it not. If it is a clone, it is - by definition - NOT distinguishable from the original. A clone (unless it is connected/mounted at the same time as the original and the Mount Manager rewrites the Disk Signature to avoid conflicts) will NOT have drive letters changed. jaclaz

Guess which is the "theme" of a forum section called "Install Windows from USB"? http://www.msfn.org/board/forum/157-install-windows-from-usb/ jaclaz EDIT: I see that you already use/used WinsetupFromUSB: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/120444-how-to-install-windows-from-usb-winsetupfromusb-with-gui/?p=1044825 Any reason why you did not read the FIRST post on the thread? http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/120444-how-to-install-windows-from-usb-winsetupfromusb-with-gui/ The limit of the tool is about Multiple Vista / 7 / 2008 on the same partition. You can have multiple XP and a Single Vista / 7 / 2008 on a single partition alright.

Look, I don't want to seem more grumpy that usual , but a few fundamental Laws of Thermodynamics, discovered and verified by some 150 years or more say that it is possible with room temperature at 32° C (the same as your 90° F) to have anything contained in it at a temperature as low as 32°, by adequate means of heat transmission/exchange. With the room at 32° or anyway well below 40° a well suited cooling system should have no issues in keeping the hard disk around 45° (and BTW your two WDC drives are a practical example that this can be and is achieved). The other two (Maxtor) drives are (you choose) either overheating or poorly cooled. jaclaz

15 K RPM (SAS or not) tend to generate a lot more heat. As said 45° is the "good" value that I find acceptable for standard hard disks. The (now becoming obsolete) but still "only meaningful" research published by google did find a relationship between too high (and too low) hard disk temperature and failure rate. The VERY MAX temperature acceptable for disk drives is either 55° or 60°: http://www.ghacks.net/2011/12/02/hard-drive-temperature-thresholds-what-you-need-to-know/ http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/193771en?language=en_US As an example a Seagate Cheetah 15K may work up to 68° BUT with a SERIOUS increase of AFR or decrease of MTBF (or if you prefer decrease of life). Sometimes RTFM actually helps in deciding whether it is convenient to add a couple 5 US$ each fans.... http://www.seagate.com/staticfiles/support/docs/manual/enterprise/cheetah/15K.7/SAS/100516226e.pdf The actual "trip" switch (see point 6.2.5) is set to MAX 68°, which represents the VERY LIMIT and should never be reached or neared, let alone for sustained amounts of time. We (highly specialized technicians ) use some highly technical jargon to describe the situation you just represented: "asking for troubles". jaclaz

A "normal" temperature (as I see it) is around 45°. Anything higher (still IMHO) represents a risk. A PC with the case opened (generally speaking and provided that the case cooling was designed properly) will have MUCH WORSE cooling of the internal components compared with it with the case closed. jaclaz

IMHO those hard disk temps are well within the "red alarm" zone Particularly, that old Maxtor L080L4 is "preoccupying", besides the exceptionally high value you have, that seems like an old 80 Gb model that AFAICR used NOT to get "hot". jaclaz