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Sure , and PreCrime will soon be established.... : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minority_Report_(film) @submix8c be VERY afraid of the consequences of what you are THINKING! jaclaz

Well, as long as the "quirky" whatever comes as a floppy disk image running *any* real mode OS (please read as DOS, FreeDOS or similar) the grub4dos or El-Torito boot CD approach will work alright. Really? I thought our down under friends were too busy with other activities : to throw away PC's along the roads.... jaclaz

NIce article. THREE things are IMHO evident: contrary to the intitial thought, there is actually a need (or at least a market) for a drone buzz detecting device : Mr. John Villasenor is definitely a lawyer : Now I would guess that if someone is "putting a stepladder up against my home without permission, climbing up the ladder, and then photographing" the public street, I have all the rights in the world to kick him/her out of my property. (right idea, wrong example) strangely enough the nice paper by Mr. Villasenor comments on Arizona's, California's and Oregon's trespassing Law provisions but fails to cite Texas and other southern states : This latter point makes me think that maybe there could be a new, emerging (niche) market for Automated Air Defense For Backyards (AADFB). Basically you assemble together the "Drone Shield" with this : jaclaz

To paraphrase "growing old is tough but beats the alternative", what do you suggest, a nice set of 7200.11's and 7200.12's? I wonder if you are aware of the related issues: http://www.msfn.org/board/forum/169-hard-drive-and-removable-media-issues/ jaclaz

Naah, it's just Murphy's Law, it is - if I remember correctly - the second or third major malfunctioning in the last several years, not at all bad when put into perspective. No. That is a continuity tester, nothing but a "special" Ohmeter (or even less that that, a bunch of leds on one side and some battery power on the other). That can diagnose an interrupted cable or bad contact, but it is of no use for detecting high frequency "data leak" or "intermittent issues", if you prefer with a cable that does not pass the tester you won't get bus/controller errors, you would simply not see the disk, or have read/write errors. Sure , that's all good advice. jaclaz

Just for the record, you can normally use grub4dos and a floppy image to flash the BIOS, and/or a plain "CD from floppy". A quick and easy way to make such a CD is hinted here : just combine the header with the floppy image and burn to CD. jaclaz

http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/07/new-xbox-by-nsa-partner-microsoft-will-watch-you-247/ Only seemingly OT: Many, many years ago I received as a gift a dog puppy that was just separated from it's mother (probably a bit to early). After having the puppy crying all night long, an old friend, a farmer with lots of experience with cattle and animals, suggested to put at night in the puppy's basket a hot water bottle with some warm water inside it and an old alarm clock (tick - tick - tick) wrapped in a blanket. It goes without saying that we (including the puppy) could sleep alright since. What will be needed additionally? http://todbot.com/blog/2009/10/07/scary-shifty-servo-eyeballs/ Just imagine the potential for a small antropomorphic upper body and head with automatically (randomly) moving eyes, a heartbeat and something to keep it at around 36.5 C (if needed), it would be a bit scary at first, and will take some serious estate on your couch, but imagine the satisfaction when: a Forrester Research (sponsored by MS) will declare how 95% of US teenagers have difficulties to concentrate (jusdging form the results of recorder eye movement analysis) a "civil rights" organization will sue MS for breaking the privacy of population a group will start a class action against MS affirming that their sons and daughter actually suffer from random eye movement AND that the XBOX is what caused it jaclaz

There have been technical issues, now everything should be back to OK. Once upon a time, when the fast storage was SCSI, one of the historical Authors on Byte, Jerry Pournelle: http://www.jerrypournelle.com/ used to say something to the effect of "whenever something is wrong with SCSI disks, it could be anything but it is always the cables": http://www.jerrypournelle.com/chaosreports/Recommended.html#Storage What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing (much) new under the sun. No, the issue is likely to happen only at the very fast frequencies the actual data transfer requires, I don't think that a suitable tool would be affordable . Yeah, sure , at a geekitude level of 93.7% . jaclaz

Well, no , that was my point . JorgeA has (had/will have) difficulties in UPLOADing an image (as attachment) not in LINKing to one AFAICU. jaclaz

Your point being...? jaclaz

Yep, but that is the output of running fdisk. I asked you the log of TESTDISK, instead. jaclaz

No. The: Prepares a hard disk to boot and install to the *whatever* hardware it is next booted on. Nothing of the "old hardware" is "kept" if not the drive letter (see the note by cdob about migrate.inf). http://support.microsoft.com/kb/241803/en-us http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/winnt32.mspx?mfr=true The only issue may be if the source has not integrated the correct drivers for the SATA/AHCI disk (if any) which may force to install in "IDE compatibility mode" (if available). jaclaz

That kind of log entry is normally connected (pardon me the pun) with drive connections, i.e. cables or connectors. Since you have several Hard disks I wouldn't completely rule out some form of interference between the cables. The cost of some five good quality SATA cables should be worth the attempt of replacing them all (and cleaning carefully the connectors on MB and disks). The BSOD may be something completely UNrelated and possibly a one time only issue. jaclaz

You fell in the usual "trap" that programs like Gparted (or Partition Magic, or similar) provide. Since you have before you a nice, graphical representation of the disk you expect that you will be able to do *whatever* you think fit, completely ignoring what is "behind it". This usually resolves in "havoc". Partitioning/re-partitioning/re-sizing parittions, etc. is a COMPLEX thing to do and these tools only SEEMINGLY make it easy. Using more "random" programs, which you (and we) are not perfectly familiar with is a good way to make things worse. What you should do right now is to run TESTDISK on that dirve (with a log), DO NOT WRITE anything to the disk, i.e. DO NOT attempt to repiar that disk, and post the TESTDISK log. This way maybe we can get an idea of the actual situation of your disk and of your current partitioning (right now it is not clear at all what is the current status). http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk jaclaz

The good thing about a good article is that a sentence is often clearly explained by the following one : It seems to me however that a comma is missing in here: this sounds better to me : jaclaz

Well, then - no offence whatever intended - irrelevant data. I presume that it is a digital multimeter. Such an instrument has a "stabilizer" or if you prefer a "cache" or a "retarding circuit" to allow the LCD to display a number, what you read is actually an "average" over a (small, but not small enough) interval. For all you know the drop could be (briefly) well below 100 volts. Filming an analogic voltmeter would give you (at 30 frames per second) maybe half the precision needed to measure a drop voltage @60 Hz (you have to consider the hysteresys of the actual instrument), but in any case better than any common digital multimeter, which measures RMS: http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/eng99/eng99515.htm Fluctuations in AC within 5% (which is what you described) should not produce "flicker", which should be noticeable when the fluctuation reaches (or nears) about 10%. jaclaz

Then why you asked? That's good. Measured HOW exactly? Oscilloscope, voltage recorder or multimeter? jaclaz

Just for the record, last time I checked it, Chrome also "respected" Zone.Identifier (whilst Opera did not ), at least on XP (but I don't think that it is OS related ). jaclaz

In any case the (switching) power supply electronics WON'T be happy about voltage fluctuations and IF somehow there are fluctuations on the DC side also, electronics inside the PC and particularly the hard disk(s) won't be happy as well. jaclaz

@Charlotte Did you miss this one? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/31/sinofsky_no_regrets/ jaclaz

Sure it is , it has an ISBN: Here is an actual photo of the book: http://library.karangturi.sch.id/index.php?p=show_detail&id=691 jaclaz

No, really , it's in Java (indonesia)! See here: http://books.google.it/books?id=7T0ut_Y8BNUC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false (page 32) http://books.google.it/books?id=7T0ut_Y8BNUC&pg=PA32&hl=en&sa=X&ei=HqyoUbvbPIaWigKN1YDgDw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false jaclaz

That can be also "fixed". If you open (when booted in the 7) the Disk Management you will likely see that the partition where XP is (first partition) has not a drive letter assigned. Simply right click on that partition and choose to assign a drive letter (you won't be able to assign the "C:" one, as it will likely be already "taken" by the second partition). Naaah, it's more than OK , I would like to have more "customers" like you , as said: it is really UNcommon to find people with the right attitude (willing to change, experiment, play with things) in your age range. jaclaz

It's not "label" it is "drive letter assignment". Drive letter assignment is (normally) made automatically by Windows XP install along a "set of rules". See here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/234048/en-us (the rules are the same in 2K and XP) There are two ways you can workaround the default automatic assignment, one involves hiding partitions (and/or disconnecting hard disks, etc.) the other is more elegant, all is needed is to add a (suitably created) migrate.inf to the setup directory on hard disk, see: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=19663 BOTH the above apply to a new install, if you are planning to "reload" your current XP "as is", though possible in theory it will cause each and every possible issue with installed applications (+1 more) and it is fairly complex, so my personal advice is to NOT do it. If you really want to go that way, start from here: jaclaz

I didn't know that peasants traveled by plane. jaclaz