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OT , but as always not much : http://blogs.msdn.com/b/larryosterman/archive/2010/01/04/what-s-up-with-the-beep-driver-in-windows-7.aspx And (in case of need), thanks to the "enhancements" above detailed: http://www.waldbauer.com/tmp/reference.php jaclaz

--JorgeA Unless you actually access/mount (through a Virtual Disk Driver) the Virtual Disk it is simply a file (or if you prefer a container). Does (say) a .zip file (a common form of compressed container) infect you machine only because it exists on your hard disk drive? On the other hand, once the Virtual Disk Image has been mounted to a drive or mountpoint, it behaves EXACTLY as it was a "real" Disk drive, let's say (but there is not "autorun" provision for these) like if you insert in your machine a SD card or a USB stick. Again - provided that you have not any of the stupid autorun settings - are the contents of the device "dangerous" because they exist? But since this Virtual Disk Drive behaves like it was a "real" one, you can scan it with the same anti-virus/anti-malware solution you use for the real disks. Of course if you are affected by dementia and start executing (double clicking) "random" .exe's, .bat's, .cmd's etc from the mounted image, and do this with the OS in the VM having no anti-virus protection and you do it before scanning the device contents fron the "Host" OS, then you have the SAME lack of security you would have if you do the same on your Real Machine. Conversely, if you never access/mount the Virtual Disk Drive, it is like an infected SD card or USB stick that you NEVER connect to your machine (pretty much safe ). http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Media-and-TV/Question69979.html jaclaz

Yes, you are evidently NOT familiar with the concept. A Virtual Machine resides on a Real Machine (Host). A Virtual Machine (normally) uses a Virtual Disk Drive. A Virtual Disk Drive (normally) resides on the Real Machine (usually in the form of a disk image, i.e. of a file, saved on the Real Machine, that represents a disk contents). The Virtual Disk Drive Image (the file) can be accessed - through a Virtual Disk Driver - exactly if it was a Real Disk Drive from the Real Machine. jaclaz

As a matter of fact that one is one among the many (pointless/lacking info) ones on it. This one actually has some "contents" : The real issue being that in the last 5 (five) years nothing much has changed . jaclaz

I additionally doubt that UEFI booting is faster in any way (3 seconds - if true/achievable is meaningless time save, unless your main occupation is booting/rebooting the system). A number of motherboards have however both BIOS and UEFI, or are however capable of using MBR disks alright. http://www.techsupportforum.com/forums/f217/solved-win7-64bits-uefi-mbr-need-infos-592835.html BIOS based tools, like - as an example - grub4dos, won't work on EFI/UEFI mode, obviously. Personal opinions: All in all GPT disks are a senseless new standard that has no real world advantage if not on extremely large storage devices. EFI/UEFI is instead a senseless new non-standard (meaning that the standard is so mindboggingly complex that noone can possibly make one actually fully respecting the set standard). jaclaz

What happens when you click on the "Disable" button in the center of the window you posted a screenshot? It vanishes in thin air The text in it changes by sheer magic into "Enable" Something else (please specify) What happens when right clicking on the connection entry? http://www.cavsi.com/questionsanswers/how-to-enable-or-disable-a-network-adapter/ jaclaz

I guess your ONLY chance is to make a Hybrid partitioning: http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/ http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/hybrid.html jaclaz

You don't normally make a "backup" of a CD, you make an image of it. Recent thread (only seemingly OT -contains links to commonly used programs to create .iso images): If you need to modify it, then a "backup" AND a suitable .iso making tool (mkisofs or OSCDIMG) AND a correct command line for any of them is the way to go. Possibly you could make use of : jaclaz

Naah, you missed the orignal reference: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=21827&st=23 http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?s=&showtopic=21827&view=findpost&p=148472 AND the image attached. jaclaz ones.bmp

Most "live" Linux CD's (not all of them, only the "good" ones ) are loaded ENTIRELY in Ram and allow to eject the CD once they have booted. JFYI also any BartPE or similar using one of the available RAMDISK options will behave like that. Example: http://puppylinux.org/wikka/howPuppyWorks @submix8c http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ Maybe it already exists. http://reboot.pro/topic/15252-picoxp/ Maybe you can make a "real" XP in 40 or 20 Mb or less: http://reboot.pro/topic/3717-xpsp1-with-full-commandline-and-ntfs-below-10-mb/ http://minixp.reboot.pro/docs/files/index.html jaclaz P.S.: Almost forgot : AND:

Good. Just for the record: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?s=&showtopic=14181&view=findpost&p=111204 jaclaz

Dir /x is the way to go . JFYI: page__view__findpost__p__842843 jaclaz

There are still valid version of OpenOffice available: http://www.oldapps.com/openoffice.php you may want to install ONLY the "word like" program "writer". I am not familiar with Abiword, but I peesume that even in older versions does produce a "compatible" .doc format. Alternatively there are other tools capable of creating a .doc compatible document, I remember that Atlantis Nova as an excellent freeware: http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/page14.html particularly because it is "tiny". jaclaz

The provision should be in nlite alright. Just in case : jaclaz

Compare them in a HEX editor instead and post the offset at which the change occurs (it is likely to be a "fixed" address, but verify by checking more that on e "couple" of files). Even easier , use FC (with the /B option) and post results: http://ss64.com/nt/fc.html jaclaz

You shouldn' t be . There are MUCH BETTER cables than the Denon : the US $ 21,000 $14,049.75 new, $13,099.00 used for the Audioquest Everest say a lot : http://www.amazon.com/AudioQuest-K2-Terminated-Speaker-Cable/dp/B000J36XR2 Yes, but there was a scandal some time ago about bad reviews being written by other competing writers that took a lot of fun out of it. http://www.forbes.com/sites/suwcharmananderson/2012/08/28/fake-reviews-amazons-rotten-core/ jaclaz

Hmmm. I guess that the idea of "short" was not made entirely clear. If the TVS diode is shorted, then the corresponding line is in contact with ground. Try doing the following. Get a pair of tweezers and put them contacting the two ends of a TVS diode. Measure the resistance across the TVS diode (with the tweezers still there). Remove the tweezers and measure again. Did the reading change? Simpler, connect the hard disk to a PC power supply (one with protection from short circuits). Switch it on. Does it automatically and immediately shuts down itself? Yes=one (or both ) the TVS diodes are shorted No= The TVS diodes are not shorted jaclaz

Sure , let's start. I confirm that the programs you listed are well suited to make an image of a CD, BUT each of them does other things, IMDISK is a driver, IMGBURN, cdburnerxp, and IsoRecorder are "full" burning solutions (and are "installed", add right click associations, etc.), something that may be somehow an issue. Any of these would IMHO be better suited (in the sense that they are simpler, portable solutions that only do what they are supposed to do): http://www.dubaron.com/cd2iso/ http://www.softpedia.com/get/CD-DVD-Tools/CD-DVD-Images-Utils/CD2ISO.shtml http://sourceforge.net/projects/cd2iso/ jaclaz

Yes , you need to make an image of the CD for 7zip to work, but making such an image is anyway advised as it would "rule out" dirty or scratched CD. As well, attempting the install from the image in a simple VM (like Qemu+Qemu Manager) would definitely "rule out" each and every possible cause connected to the actual media. OT but not much, I have seen more than one "modern" DVD drives that manage to read ONLY either a DVD or a CD (but not both) because one of the two lasers are defective. jaclaz

Not completely unlikely getting a discounted car in a special promotion for (say) "assisting people hit by an earthquake" by faking that you are one of them even if you live in another country and you don't even know what an earthquake is. http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/software-assurance/faq.aspx#faq_3 Basically you can use the software legally as long as you are employed by the company that has a HUP agreement with MS. If you prefer, the money you pay doesn't actually buy you the license, any other "normal" company would have provided a certain number of "full" licenses to the employees of Volume Licensing for free or for a highly discounted price, but the good MS guys decided that you money is only a sort of "fee" for downloading the thingy and that the legal validity of the license is connected to your keeping that employment (and/or your employer continuing being part of the SA program). jaclaz

It seems to me like you are also missing some point. "with CD-ROM" hanging = missing "appropriate" driver for the CD-ROM drive or hardware issue with the actual CD drive (if the disk is not read properly one would more likely have the CD-ROM continuously turn at a zillion RPM's or spinning up and down like mad, etc.). "without CD-ROM" doesn't access the CD-ROM (hardly a surprise). There is no need (JFYI) to have BBIE today, simply open the .iso in 7-zip and you can extract the El-Torito Floppy Emulation image from the [bOOT] (virtual) directory allright. There is a possibility (not so remote) that if it is (as it should be) a IDE CD-ROM there is something involved with Slave/Master/Cable detect AND the presence of two hard disk *somehow* involved in the issue. The most logical next step (to troubleshoot the issue) would be IMHO to remove the second hard disk (disconnect it) and verify cables and jumper settings on CD-ROM and remaining hard disk drive. If the scope is just to install the Me to the PC, the most logical step would be to boot *any* minimal Linux distro (if it boots) from CD and then copu the CD contents on the hard disk, finally install form the files on hard disk. jaclaz

The tricky part is finding the ones actually worth reading . Example : http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/B001648ZGA/3952612-20 Here is a good source for them: http://rivercrap.com/ jaclaz

Is there a new report out? The old one doesn't say exactly that. It says that they found no correlation (but the report is from 2005-2006 - newer hard disks are much "hotter" that before - and their disk base is/was "obviously" kept at reasonable temperatures). http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf jaclaz

I presume that you are going after the wrong wild goose. A TVS diode (though being a diode) behaves more like an "inverted" fuse. The idea is that (in normal operation) it "bridges" the power line (either +5 or +12) to ground with "infinite" resistance. If *something* triggers it then it shorts the power line to ground (thus switching off the PSU - if it has short protection - or nicely blowing some components on it). You cannot actually test a "not triggered" TVS diode with an ohmeter (like you can't *any* diode) untill it is soldered to the board, of course if it was triggered and became a short you can detect the short. The usual "repair" done when a TVS is shorted is simply that of removing it. The board will have no protection anymore from survoltage or spikes, but it should work alright. A drive not spinning is more likely to be an issue with the spindle bearing itself (but you had it spinning before) with contacts to the motor (but I guess that by now you have thoriughfully cleaned and checked them) or - as you fear - another component in the "motor driving electronics" that has blown up (current return, overcurrent due to poor contacts, etc.). If the latter is the case, your best next move is doing a PCB swap, BUT you NEED and IDENTICAL PCB AND you MUST SWAP the ROM from the old board to the new one, something that is usually well beyond the soldering/desolering/resoldering abilities of the average DIY guy. jaclaz

Well there are a few pre-made ones. Looky here: http://www.multibooters.co.uk/multiboot.html jaclaz