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Can you boot two machines, one working and one not working and create two WMIC Path Win32_ComputerSystem get * /Format:list>good.txt WMIC Path Win32_ComputerSystem get * /Format:list>bad.txt and post them? But what is the actual problem? I mean you can put a check in the Autoit code and if the field comes empty you write *something* to it. Or am I missing something? jaclaz

Oww, come on, people. Get Windows XP. Set the taskbar to autohide. Move it to the right side of the monitor. Enlarge it so that you can read the name of the apps. SCOOP! We always had a charms bar. Seriously, this is a commonly attempted (completely wrong) interface, just as an example the stupid tool for some of Buffalo's storage devices behave like that, you get by mistake on the side of the screen and it pops out, but there are tens of similar "smart" (in the perverted mind of the respective Authors) popping out from nowhere apps/tools. jaclaz

It seems to me like a "plain" file/partition undeleter. I doubt that it can recover any file that PHOTOREC and/or DMDE cannot recover. Of course in the case of: Deleted by partitioning drive Deleted by fdisk no file is deleted, and you want to recover partition or volumes (please read as TESTDISK and/or DMDE) and the Deleted by formatting drive does NOT apply to Vista and later UNLESS the formatting was performed with the /q or "quick" switch. jaclaz

Well, yes and no. Up to windows 9x/Me the "core" was (like Linux) command line (the DOS) and a (default) "shell" (and/or "windowing system") was completely separated (to be accurate Me "integrated" it), for the "final" user (though the differences between Linux and DOS based windows are deeper than this). The "NT family" has been (somewhat "falsely", see below) traditionally represented as being "an integrated with GUI OS" and the "windowing system" consequently "liberally confused" with the default shell (which is Explorer.exe). There are alternatives to explorer.exe (as seen before) and after all the MS' own PE's have traditionally been "command line only" (and - as a further example - Server core has command line interface only). Again there are several differences between Linux and any NT based system, but to the "final" user there isn't that much difference between a "shell" and a "windowing system", as a matter of fact the "windowing system" is integrated in Windows NT : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windowing_system but to the "common user" this is not so evident. Anyone that ever used good ol' DOS and Windows 3.1 or 3.11 can think, for all practical purposes, that startX in Linux is correspondent to running win.com. I hope to have contributed to clear the matter. jaclaz

Well, with all due respect , alternate shells have existed in the windows world since WIndows 3.1, so not really a "brand new concept", though they are not necessarily a "completely different Windowing system", still they manage to convey the same idea. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alternative_shells_for_Windows and - not so casually - a KDE for Windows is also available: http://windows.kde.org/ Of course the fact that on a site dedicated to a graphical environment there is not even a single screenshot of the actual graphical environment only means that the good guys behind the scene have no idea (or no actual intention) to promote their (IMHO nice) software. More "mature" shells like bblean/bb4win (which I personally like for it's minimalism - Free/Freeware) or Aston Shell (Commercial): http://www.astonshell.com/ may give a "better taste" of what is achievable. jaclaz

It might be even better if noone re-distributes non-redistributable files through the board. Noone ever heard of hashing a file (let's say MD5) to check if it's the same as another one? jaclaz

Sure , my newspaper man is also very polite, but he hardly can help with bricked 7200.11's, it is not by choice that he sells newspapers at the corner of the road, instead of working at Seagate (or other "big" firm) technical service. He needs to wake up much earlier than what the people at Seagate do, gets a lot more cold in winter and hot in summer than they do , yet he is very polite and as useless as the Seagate guys when it comes to bricked drives, BUT at least he is good at selling newspapers . JFYI, at the time an easy, almost costless "way out" was proposed, too bad that the Seagate Top Management did not think about it : jaclaz

It may depend on the browser and/or some plugins in it, I am getting the same with my Opera. The two links to the actual .exe's: http://www.technical-assistance.co.uk/drivers/nusb320-Eng-98FE.exe http://www.technical-assistance.co.uk/drivers/nusb33e.exe Resolve in the browser address to: http://www.technical-assistance.co.uk/kb/usbmsd98.php Srware Iron works. Anyway find attached the nusb33.exe file (this is for the Windows 98 SE) nusb33e.exe jaclaz

Not really (you don't *need* one directory back, you *want* one directory back, it's not the same thing). And then you want two directories down. And you didn't take more than 1 second to try and understand the syntax of the example. The idea is: CD /D %~dp0 <- this changes current directory to the one in which Win7.bat is, no matter on which drive, in your case ROOT\OneClickInstaller\tools\ CD .. <- this changes to one directory up, in your case ROOT\OneClickInstaller\ CD .\apps\chrome <- this changes to two directory down, in your case ROOT\OneClickInstaller\apps\chrome\ chrome.exe /silent /install <- this executes the file from the current directory Or: CD /D %~dp0..\apps\chrome <- this changes to one directoty up to the one in which Win7.bat is, no matter on which drive , two directory down, in your case ROOT\OneClickInstaller\apps\chrome\ chrome.exe /silent /install <- this executes the file from the current directory Or: CD /D %~dp0 <- this changes current directory to the one in which Win7.bat is, no matter on which drive, in your case ROOT\OneClickInstaller\tools\ CD ..\apps\chrome <- this changes to two directory down, in your case ROOT\OneClickInstaller\apps\chrome\ chrome.exe /silent /install <- this executes the file from the current directory Or: CD /D %~dp0 <- this changes current directory to the one in which Win7.bat is, no matter on which drive, in your case ROOT\OneClickInstaller\tools\ ..\apps\chrome\chrome.exe /silent /install <- this executes the file from the directory Or: CD /D %~d0 <- this changes current directory to the ROOT of the drive in which Win7.bat is, no matter on which drive, in your case ROOT\ .\OneClickInstaller\apps\chrome\chrome.exe /silent /install <- this executes the file from the directory Or: %~d0\OneClickInstaller\apps\chrome\chrome.exe /silent /install <- this executes the file from the directory Or: %~dp0..\apps\chrome\chrome.exe /silent /install <- this executes the file from the directory It makes (to me) very little sense to have a \tools directory containing just three (lousy ) batches and a separate \apps directory, where, additionally you have a \winrar directory containing a wirar.exe file, a \chrome directory containing a chrome.exe file, etc., i.e. it seems to me like you are making it more complex than needed. jaclaz

I tend to think that the technical service at Seagate is very similar to the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation : http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Sirius_Cybernetics_Corporation jaclaz

Let's start again from scratch, OK? HOW is the directory structure you use made? Example (this is what I would personally use): ROOT --------->Mynicebats -------------------------->Launch.bat -------------------------->Winxp.bat -------------------------->Win7.bat -------------------------->Apps [DIR] ------------------------------------------>Winrar [DIR] ------------------------------------------------------------>winrar.exe ------------------------------------------>Chrome [DIR] ------------------------------------------------------------>chrome.exe ... etc. Now, you can use: @ECHO off CD /D %~dp0 CD "apps\winrar\" ECHO Installing WinRAR winrar.exe /s cls ECHO Installation completed ! .... Which will change the directory (no matter which drive it is) to the "Mynicebats" directory and then change it to Mynicebats\apps\winrar or do something easier (two possibilities): @ECHO off CD /D %~dp0apps\winrar ECHO Installing WinRAR winrar.exe /s cls ECHO Installation completed ! .... There is seemingly no need to actually change directory at all. @ECHO off ECHO Installing WinRAR %~dp0apps\winrar\winrar.exe /s cls ECHO Installation completed ! .... or: @ECHO off ECHO Installing WinRAR START /WAIT "" %~dp0apps\winrar\winrar.exe /s cls ECHO Installation completed ! .... jaclaz

I thought my idea was clear enough and anyway Geej explicited it. Did you notice how the output of the added DIR command was NOT the same in the two runs? In the original batch you are using relative paths" that may be NOT the same when you run the app manually and when you run it from runonce. The: CD %~dp0 should make a whole lot of difference (at least the program will run always from the directory where win7.bat resides. jaclaz

Do you want to check for all duplicate files in C:\downloaded and D:\backup ? duplicatefilefinder C\downloaded: D:\backup notepad duplicates.txt jaclaz

Try running this modified win7.bat, both form command line and from runonce.... @ECHO off DIR ../apps/winrar/ ECHO Does this throw an error? PAUSE DIR ECHO In which PATH (directory) am I? PAUSE CD.. CD "apps/winrar/" ECHO Installing WinRAR winrar.exe /s cls ECHO Installation completed ! ECHO All Applications installed ! pause > NUL jaclaz

Good, another happy bunny . jaclaz

Sure, that's why I tagged is as "basic" . It' called DuplicateFileFinder and not DuplicateFileFinderAndDeleter However the approach used by Coderforlife is particularly interesting as it allows very fast "matching" . BTW, on NTFS filesystems and IF filename remained the same, this is also fastish (but of course only partially answers the OP question): http://ndff.hotbox.ru/en/ (there are several tools similarly based on direct $MFT parsing): jaclaz

Sure, one must start somewhere . Anyway, read here WHY exactly you started your new experience with the wrong foot : http://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=12166 http://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?t=12166&f=1&start=0#p79321 (not that the good guys at hddguru are particularly friendly/easy with non-pro's, but from time to time you can get some useful info from there). Sometimes things simply "hang". Start again from scratch, including re-booting the PC (it could also depend on the OS you are running). Then, after having powered off the drive (possibly for sixty seconds and not thirty), see the recommended guide: http://www.mapleleafmountain.com/seagatebrick.html but you can also try NOT powering it of BUT remember to change level or try closing the hyperterminal window a start a new session. jaclaz

If a basic one would do.... http://www.coderforlife.com/projects/utilities/#DuplicateFileFinder jaclaz

Please describe the feature(s) that you need (or that you think you need) and that is not among the ones of zback: jaclaz

Well, there is a thread dedicated to this: summing up all the various tricks and tweaks and what not that people has uses and uses to run 98 day to day with more than 1 Gb Ram . Of these, not all use the Ram limitation patch by R.Loew. jaclaz

I would dare to say that the images on the original john's phone are slightly more understandable for a child than the printout: On - Off End call Answer http://johnsphones.org/ There are by now what, tens of "simplified phones" around, not really a "new idea". Wait, but those have all the figures from 0 to 9 (very difficult for a child that can easily fix your dvd recorder, set your radio alarm clock, and reset your smartphone - all without reading instructions - in under two minutes ) This is better: http://cnipopman.en.made-in-china.com/product/YqzxgMLCHXVG/China-A88-Child-Mobile-Phone-Q6-Ibaby-Kids-Cell-Phone.html though it has icons for headset on and off hook, that a child cannot understand and numbers from 1 to 4 This is better: http://cnipopman.en.made-in-china.com/product/lMLEzPuKYvhG/China-Gk301-Kids-Mobile-Phone-With-GPS-Tracker.html And this is even better: http://www.dhgate.com/promotion-ibaby-cute-baby-mobile-phone-kids/p-ff80808132a4f51a0132b9e392a437d1.html our good Chinese friends - having a few thousands years of cultural background and some experience with ideograms, clearly much more cleverly thinking than the UK buffoons that "invented" the ownphone, hypothized that a kid would likely want to call (or actually be allowed to call): Mom Dad Home School SOS and risked to pre-print those along with nice sketches of the words. And once again, we have proof that the Simon like interface and colours are aimed to kids . jaclaz

Good , then you failed to understand how this thread in which you posted is ONLY related to the 7200.11 model (strangely enough it's title is ."The Solution for Seagate 7200.11 HDDs" and not "Generic thread about any issue with any disk"). You dont' really want to open a disk (at all) and certainly not "to see if the heads are moving". In any case, once you will have opened it , unless you have a suitable CLEAN environment (and if you have one or know how to build one, probably you would not be here asking for help) and you have some previous experience in repairing disks (and again that would make improbable that you would be here), the disk has around 99.99% of probabilities to never work again once re-assembled. Seriously, DON'T EVEN THINK of opening a disk (of course if not for fun, after having decided that the disk - and any data in it is of no value for you). jaclaz

Well, I don' t see any possible way in which that can be a response connected to my previous post. Three clear statements: there is no need to update or "mantain" XP (actually there is no real *need* to update XP since SP2 if not for security reasons, and for security related to connection to the internet or to an insecure LAN) (see note below) NASA or the agency managing the International Space Station (hopefully) provides (on Earth) a well secured system (IF they provide Internet access to the astronauts ) NASA or the agency managing the International Space Station (hopefully) does not use Excel to calculate trajectories How good you are at programming , how smart or dumb the USAF may be in using NT based systems (supported or unsupported) for the *whatever* they use them, the whatever changes in compilers, have NOTHING to do with my post. Note: Hey people, remember that when we talk of XP, we talk of a system that (with it's defects and "quirks") has been working for many years in the very large majority of PC's on Earth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP Service Pack 1 was a "needed" bugfix on September 2002 Service Pack 2 was mainly an "added features" on August 2004 (and contains lots of "security" related fixes) Service Pack 3 was almost totally "security related" in April 2008 At least since Service Pack 1 Windows XP has worked. I am running a SP2 XP, with NO issues whatsoever. For all it matters, once excluded the "security related" fixes, and updates directly or indirectly connected to the changes in the Internet, (i.e. as an example a PC NOT connected in a LAN and/or the 'net) and/or the *need* to use the latest software, any SP level XP normally does what is supposed to do, it's not like for 2 years between 2002 and 2004 and for 4 more years between 2004 and 2008 everything stopped working and humans reverted to living in caves due to the failure of computing technology. Every office in the world continued using their PC's to do what they had done before, actually if there were issues, there were initially with SP3.... Strangely enough humanity survived even without latest Service Pack, and without *essential* features like UAC and DEP (and Silverlight ) . (and BTW before that we managed to live without WFP and plug 'n play) jaclaz

Really? Guess why the README FIRST: (yes the one that you should read BEFORE posting here, that is linked to in big red bold letters on first post and is reminded on the top of each and every page has this to say on the matter: Who knows? But surely the second you said. jaclaz

Since that is seemingly the same model that Tripredacus originally linked to, what remains to know are the names of the "Startech tech support" guys that talked to Trip... jaclaz