jaclaz

jaclaz

Sure, the idea is to first see if the approach works, and later refine it . You can use the numeric keypad to have the dash "-" and the slash "/" normally. Now that you can boot "manually" you can add (as first step towards the "more user friendly" approach) in the same volume where NTLDR, NTDETECT.COM, BOOT:INI and grldr are a "plain" text file, name it menu.lst. In it put this contents (you can copy and paste allright): All the 4 (four) entries for Windows 7 should work to boot it, please try all of them and report if any of them does not work. jaclaz

You cleverly manage to mess them up alright by simple copy and paste, right? jaclaz

I do not doubt your report, I am only stating how evidently you did (and are still doing) something different from what I have asked you to do. IF: you have ONLY the SSD connected you NEVER "installed" grub4dos to the SSD or ANY of the two partitions in it you ONLY added the line c:\grldr="grub4dos" to the BOOT.INI on first (active) partition of the SSD you ONLY added to the ROOT of first (active) partition of the SSD the file grldr When you boot you should see (white text on black background) a choice among which a line "grub4dos" (without double quotes) and if you choose this line you will land to (still white text on black background) *something saying "grub>" (again without quotes). That is unless little green men did plant on your PC a green screen overnight. Unless you manage to do EXACTLY what I suggest (and NOTHING else) and thus "land" on some white text on black background "grub>" we won't get very far. jaclaz

Here kid, grab my hand, let me help you cross the road safely : http://http//www.pcworld.com/article/2040247/new-start-experience-windows-blue-is-looking-more-like-windows-blah.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/2040247/new-start-experience-windows-blue-is-looking-more-like-windows-blah.html jaclaz

Green screen? Rolfen, you are somehoiw doing "other" things from what you were asked. "Green Screen" maybe due to the presence of a menu.lst. If you have (as you should) ONLY the SSD connected AND you ONLY copied grldr to the active partiton, you won' t have any menu.lst, nor any "green screen". If you get a "green screen", press "c" (commandline) and get to the grub> prompt. You don' t "put" \boot\BCD folder anywhere, it is created by the Windows 7 install procedure, you simply CANNOT (ever) boot a Windows 7 if it doesn't exists. (and it should exist on the active, primary partition of the SSD at the time of Windows 7 install). if at the grub> prompt you type: find --set-root /bootmgr IF you have as output (hd0,0) or (hd0,1) it means that the file IS actually found on either (hd0,0) or (hd0,1) and "root" IS actually set to te volume containing the BOOTMGR. The immediately following: chainloader /bootmgr CANNOT output: Error 15 file not found. (since it just found it ). jaclaz

WHICH "error msg"? (they have numbers and a brief explicative text) Please note that it is: chainloader[sPACE]/bootmgr jaclaz

Hey ! You stole my bunny ! Naah, it's a clone : jaclaz

Wow! "To mindlessly go towards a mindless misconception of the future" is a quite memorable paraphrase of the most famous among Star Treck Intro's lines, and is an epic apophthegm in itself! Yep , but a better paraphrase (and a wish ) would be "to boldly start kicking the mindless jerks' asses (real hard, BTW)" jaclaz

Well, it is an icon on the taskbar representing a "broken fence". Ceci n'est pas une pipe. jaclaz

That's good, as I am also not happy and it would have been unfair to be alone in unhappyness . This poll (I would say preliminary results): http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=1679432 seems like confirming our thoughts. But I doubt that you (we) can stop the mindless from mindlessly go towards what they mindlessly think is the future. jaclaz

And ALSO (JFYI) extremely risky. See if you can find data about the intended lifetime of a SATA connector? It's in the spoiler, just in case : It is not like on 51th connection/disconnection (roughly one year at once a week) it will self-destroy , but still it has to be taken into account how it was NOT designed to be frequently connected/disconnected. jaclaz

Most of what you have been told is correct, though seemingly (to me at least) it has been greatly exaggerated. It is true that recent hard disk run hotter than old ones, but up to a point. You can have plain SATA cards, i.e. a PCI card that offers a SATA interface for a SATA hard disk for a few bucks. They are perfectly "safe". There are also IDE to SATA converters, though you have to be a bit careful about those as there "good" ones and "bad" ones. You may even find in scrapyard or for really some peanuts a SCSI Card (possibly even RAID) and some (very high quality) used (from server) SCSI ULTRA 320 disks, typically a 73 Gb 10K SCSI (used) can be found for anything between 10 and 30 bucks, 36 Gb ones can be had for next to nothing. Right now they are the best thing you can have in terms of reliability/price. Obviously you need to cool them appropriately, adding if needed one or two fans to your case. Among IDE's it's not IMHO as much rotating speed (which of course matters, i.e. it is true that 5,400 rpm's run "cooler" than 7,200) but rather magnetic density. Basically, the more capacity a hard disk (of same form factor) has, the more compacted the info is written to it, and the more everything needs to have tighter tolerances (that might produce more heat) but also computing power (i.e. a part of the increased heat does not come from the disk, but from the chips on the PCB attached to it), additionally (but this is only a guess of mine) perpendicular recording (what most if not all "modern" hard disks"and data extraction may need A 5,400 rpm (set apart the 2.5" "low power" disks sometimes used in netbooks and notebooks) is normally "one generation" or two earlier and have lower magnetic density, this may be another factor that reduces the amount of heat generated. Finally another possibly useful in your case setup could be that of getting a card with some e-sata connectors and use external sata cases and disks. jaclaz

NO, actually the idea was to see what happens with those few grub4dos commands BEFORE touching your current install on the SSD. I mean, if you like to have C: as the "OS partition" when either XP or 7 is booted, you have already the working configuration that you desire and it'0s just a matter to set a provision for it in the BOOT.INI. You DO NOT WANT to "install" grub4dos! You want to ONLY extract form the .zip and copy the file grldr to the root of the active XP partition (along with the already existiong NTLDR, NTDETECT.COM and BOOT.INI) and NOTHING ELSE. jaclaz

@duffy But the video on last link (The Guardian) works for me, it should work for you also: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/video/2013/may/03/robobee-insect-flight-demonstration-video jaclaz

My bad , I meant "back to topic" in the sense of "back to topic" and "meet the robobee" in the sense of "meet the robobee in action". The idea was to to provide the link to the videos, that show one of the little thingies attempting different maneuvers (seemingly landing has still to be worked upon ). jaclaz

VERY simplified: Your motherboard "talks" PCI or AGP (or PCIE) *Any* video card "talks" either of PCI or AGP (or PCIe) internally and either of VGA, DVI, Video, S-Video etc. externally. As long as you have drivers for the video card suitable to your OS, you are good to go, the BIOS sends *something* to the *whatever* bus, and the video card "translates" this *something* to *whatever* the video card is supposed to output, *any* video card is "compatible" with the *whatever* the motherboard sends through the bus (usually 80x25 text screen or low resolution frame buffer). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_card jaclaz

Well, the considerations you express about the OS are most probably very correct , but the approach sounds a lot like the fox and the grapes : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fox_and_the_Grapes jaclaz

Personally I use Opera 99% , SRWARE IRON (a bettered Google Chrome, actually better ) 0.9% and IE (6) only on a few sites that really-really need it 0.1%. In case someone has some spare 5 bucks without a use for them , this seems nice: http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/group-and-organize-program-icons-in-windows-7-taskbar-with-bins/ jaclaz

No, there may be many others but all not "easy", "straightforward" or "safe". Another approach, impersonate "Trusted Installer": maybe it works on Windows 8 too . jaclaz

To continue adopting a different approach (a more aggressive one ) I find a lot of similarities between the guys at IPB and the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation: http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Sirius_Cybernetics_Corporation in several (mostly unneeded/absurd) updates they changed the parsing engine and a lot of other settings, and effectively botched for good the (evidently less carefully managed than MSFN) reboot.pro board. Here on MSFN there were some issues, see the link in my signature: http://jaclaz.altervista.org/Projects/Convert_address.htm but at least previous contents of the board was kept. On both 911CD and boot-land a few years ago all links were botched, later on reboot.pro we had the same issues than here about thread post offsets, but also: all code and codebox contents botched (some in a way that is NOT correctable anymore, some in a re-parsable way, see: http://reboot.pro/topic/15275-release-botched-rebootpro-code-converter/ and http://pastehtml.com/view/b4t99xk89.html "random" issues with formatting the pre-parsing (WSYIWYG) of posts that is a "nightmare" quotes not showing the Author/Date until actually posted etc., etc. JFYI: If you just read the last thread and the corresponding reply on the IPB (not a bug): http://community.invisionpower.com/resources/bugs.html/_/ip-board/post-offset-disabled-on-new-version-r37167 you can have a good estimate of the probabilities they will ever fix the issue you are having. (0.00%) (sorry ) jaclaz

I think it is the usual FUD about "newer", "cooler", "leet". Usually POP3 "downloads" mail whilst IMAP doesn't. This has traditionally meant for the least technical knowledgeable user that with one the mailbox on the server is emptied (the message is copied to local and doesn't exist anymore on the server) and with the other the mail remains on the server and thus you have a mailbox accessible from several different devices. Example: http://www.domainmonster.com/editorials/pop3-imap-guide/ Of course one can set a POP3 client to leave mail on the server alright. And, in case of slow connections, limited resources, whatever there are nice programs that allow to check (and delete or download/move to local or copy to local) e-mails by only checking the object (and/or a given number of chars of the message). A very good tool I use since years (and which BTW has proven to be a very good "preventive measure" against phishing and maul-originated malware) is npop: http://www.nakka.com/soft/npop/index_eng.html jaclaz

Back to topic, meet the Robobee: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/05/robotic-insects-make-first-controlled-flight/ The video doesn't display for me, however: http://robobees.seas.harvard.edu/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboBee http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/video/2013/may/03/robobee-insect-flight-demonstration-video jaclaz

That is the "normal" behaviour when you install a Windows 7 on a PC that already has Windows XP installed, unless you hide (or change the active status) of the partition on which XP is installed before installing the XP. If you do the above the XP partition would normally get the drive letter "C:" and Windows 7 will have (say) the "D:" one, the BOOTMGR and the \boot\BCD will be written to the C: (i.e. on the same partition on which NTLDR and BOOT.INI are). If you installed the two systems "independently" you are having instead on first partition NTLDR+BOOT.INI and on second partition BOOTMGR+\boot\BCD, and the C: drive letter is given to the partition that you set as active and boot from, to the first one when you boot XP or to the second one when you boot windows 7. Do this test: add grldr to first partition add to the BOOT.INI in first partition a line: C:\grldr="grub4dos" when booting, select "grub4dos" and you will get to the grub> prompt at it type (without double quotes): "find --set-root /bootmgr" and press [ENTER] then: "root" [ENTER] <- you should have here (hd0,1) as feedback then: "chainloader /bootmgr" [ENTER] then "boot" [ENTER] and the windows 7 on second partition should boot normally jaclaz

Cannot say if/how it will work on your particular system, but: http://pcdecrapifier.com/ jaclaz