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But then, if you are positive that the peep there WILL remove the CD, all you have to do is to remove the BOOTFIX.BIN from the CD. Making a grub4dos based CD that checks *something* on hard disk is perfectly possible of course, only, if your CD already opens he CD tray and beeps it sounds, it seems to me overkill. If you need help with grub4dos, just say so. jaclaz

Hmmm, queer. I thought that XFS had non-that-bad recovery capabilities. Have you gone through: http://xfs.org/index.php/XFS_FAQ Particularly: http://xfs.org/index.php/XFS_FAQ#Q:_Does_the_filesystem_have_an_undelete_capability.3F What happens running xfs_check? jaclaz

BUT the difference NOW is that every step you take (and every bond you break, every claim you stake, every contact you clean ) .... we'll be watching you! jaclaz

I cannot see a reason for this. With a "normal", "attended" CD the procedure is simple and there are only two possible cases: new (or wiped) disk (no MBR/no partitions) -> Bootfix is NOT invoked at first boot, then text mode setup is run -> MBR and partition made, AND formatted AND setup files copied to hard disk -> bootfix is invoked to allow - if needed - to STOP the installing (the procedure is that second boot comes from hard disk, and the bootfix.bin is there because after text mode you should boot from HD, and without it (or changing the BIOS boot order) the install would start again from CD, which is wrong. if you are re-installing, the bootfix.bin is invoked on first boot, you press the any key, and you enter the needed, F8, etc., then you can go away as the mechanism will reboot second time, noone will press the key and second boot will work as designed, then you will need to be back in - say - 15 to 30 minutes to input the other info that needs to be input on the GUI mode part . In unattended mode, #1 you need to press nothing, in #2 you need to press the key ONCE at first boot (and anyway *someone* must be there to insert the CD, change BIOS order if needed, actually connect the machine to mains, etc.), once you have pressed it you can walk away and come back later just to check if everything went OK. WHAT is the problem? Sure, grub4dos as an example, can do *almost anything*. jaclaz

Which doesn't mean that one might own a lot of personal computers . In any case, if the question is: The answer is: Delete from source BOOTFIX.BIN, or change the bootsector or .... see: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=19987 jaclaz

No, WD-40 is not an "advised" product (by me) to do this kind of contact cleaning, I used it as an example, as the three "leading" products (for MECHANICAL unblocking/lubricating) are: Product<-Maker/Brand WD-40 <- Rocket Chemical (that makes a whole range of products) see: http://www.wd40-italianspecialist.it/ "WD-40 Detergente Contatti" SVITOL <- Arexons (that makes a whole range of products) CRC 5-56 <- CRC (that makes a whole range of products) The above are obviously NOT exactly the SAME product, but they are very similar. BTW: http://www.wd40.it/wd-40-company_pag_pg12.aspx The "inventor" of WD-40 is called Norm Larsen. The founder of CRC is Norman Larsen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRC_Industries Concidence? Certainly NOT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm_Larsen @Phaenius Now, be nice, and get a can of R-11 from here: http://www.vitacom.ro/Products/2538/SPRAY-R-11-200/Spray-curatire-contact-due-ci-200ml.html for 23 Lei or a can of G-22 for the same price: http://www.vitacom.ro/Products/2532/SPRAY-G-22-200/Spray-curatire-contact-(uscat)-due-ci-200ml.html or save 4 Lei getting one of G-20: http://www.vitacom.ro/Products/2531/SPRAY-G-20-200/Spray-curatire-contact-(uscat)-due-ci-200ml.html (and actually getting the most suited product among the three ). jaclaz

I thought that CRC products were distributed in Romania as well. In Italy, besides the ubiquitous "SVITOL" (Arexons): http://www.arexons.it/arexons/cms/prodotti/casa/lubrificanti-sbloccanti/svitol-lubrificante/2-4127-svitol-lubrificante-spray.html CRC products are very common, whilst as an example WD-40 (which is ubiquitous in the US) is very rarely found. Post links to a few Romanian online shops dealing with electronic related products, if you want I can have a look at them and see if I can found something more suitable. On the same site you posted earlier, these ones sound good as well as the G-22: http://www.duecielectronic.it/index.php?lang=eng&menu_1=prodotti&menu_2=010+-+R-11&k=0 http://www.duecielectronic.it/index.php?lang=eng&menu_1=prodotti&menu_2=100+-+G-20&k=9 jaclaz

I wasn't citing the actual sign (and as well in it there is NO "Priere de" in the French and the "Please do not lean out of the windows" in the English version , is a rather similar to the Italian "it is dangerous to lean out"), but the Italian comic (which obviously took some "poetic licenses"): Sorry for the misunderstanding. jaclaz

Who are "they"? The actual good React-OS guys said that the scope is to become fully compatible (some day). Right now even NTFS support is missing . jaclaz

OT , Vodka is traditionally very good for cleaning CD's: page__view__findpost__p__412182 jaclaz

I am evidently missing something (possibly because you did not write it). That thingy is "native" PCMCIA, right? How exactly are you connecting the PCMCIA to the USB 1.1 port of the ASUS G1S? Which EXACT drivers are these? "WPC Filesystem driver" or "WPD Filesystem Volume driver"? However, check this: http://www.daniweb.com/hardware-and-software/microsoft-windows/windows-vista-and-windows-7-8/threads/103568/wpd-filesystem-volume-driver-error-code-10# jaclaz

Well, CRC Kontact 60/WL/61 was suggested as a THREE STEP chemical process to deoxidize/clean/stabilize/restore corroded contacts here: BTW you yourself stated here: how you found AG Kontact U at a local store. Then you stated how you would use "universal lotion" instead as the chemical companies are all in a conspiracy to get money from your wallet. And now your local store is out of stock of AG Kontact U? Or you LIED at the time? BTW, all you need now is maybe to ONLY clean contacts, i.e. any "generic" contact cleaner such as: http://www.crcindustries.com/ei/content/prod_detail.aspx?PN=03070 may do, though, personally I would still use a "high-end" product with additional features. If you are going to order through the Internet, and you are beyond your previous el-cheapo approach , this would do nicely: http://store.caig.com/s.nl/sc.2/category.188/.f jaclaz

IF you are eligible to buy a license for it AND IF you are wiling to pay the corresponding money to MS. jaclaz

Naah, I can feel the force flowing around you. Strong it is not. That... not ready for the burden were you. Patience you must have, my young padawan. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4HESc6LaPdQ/TIosUED4k4I/AAAAAAAABUU/-Fwm74YaqW0/s1600/lolcat5.bmp jaclaz

Maybe something like this: http://www3.telus.net/pfrank/index.html could be of use. It seemingly has file-renaming capabilities based on metadata, at least for most common files. jaclaz

Occam's razor. A simpler exlanation is that his dog ate all the other pieces of his tangram and he was left with just the "slate" (or "romboid"). BTW his dog also seemingly ate in the past 16,777,215 of his colours, leaving him with ONLY a light blue/turquoise. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turquoise_(color) jaclaz

Yep, which may also mean that what was recovered by the diskinternals run is simply "garbage" (or it may mean that having running the diskinternals tool on the original disk made it unreadable, due to overheating, simple wear and what not. Try fully recovering (from the ones obtained by using the diskinternals tool) a few files that do have some metadata including filename. MS Word .doc files - as an example - do store inside the file the name under which they were last saved, see: http://www.forensicfocus.com/Forums/viewtopic/t=9729/ It is also possible that DatarescueDD has some issues with the disk controller or with the environment you are running it in. A "second opinion" (and a third, fourth, etc.) with other imaging tools is then needed. You can also try to "image in sections" attempting both "forward" and "reverse" direction, see: http://reboot.pro/topic/15040-data-recovery-off-clicking-disk/ http://reboot.pro/topic/15040-data-recovery-off-clicking-disk/?p=133567 jaclaz

This is one of the advantages of Italian. A car is related to the concept of mobilità=mobility. A house is related to the the concept of immobiliare=real estate. Cars are made to move, houses are made to stay where they are . Relative accessories tend to be the same. JFYI, a very common issue since the advent of SATA disks is that their senseless (theoretically 50 insertions worth ) connector will often disconnect when moving. The issue is so serious that most OEM's have one way or the other to "fix" the connector to allow safely shipping to the end customer. For the record, old ISA cards had a very similar tendency. jaclaz

Well, you need another (much, much bigger) supply of patience. If the drive "clicks" it means that it went beserk (as it's most common now) because of some "serious" error. Attempting direct recovery from that device (i.e. as opposed to "from a copy/image") is a big risk and often, even if the "fix" worked the disk is NOT in a good state and access to it may be painfully slow and/or the presence of "bad sectors" or mis-mapping may be the cause of the slowness. As said he advice is to image the disk (slowly or as slowly as the disk requires) and then work (quickly) on the image. Well this is an assumption (in this case not supported by any evidence), if just the MBR and/or Partition table were corrupted, you would have no clicks and TESTDISK would have taken no more than a few minutes (unless a deep search would have become necessary). jaclaz

Check (have never tried it on an EXT3) DMDE: http://softdm.com/ for FAT/NTFS I find it an excellent tool (though not the easiest/most intuitive one around). In any case BEFORE any attempt you should IMAGE the disk "as is" (possibly twice) with dd or similar. If you search a bit in this same subforum you will easily find related thread talking of ddrescue/dd_rescue (Linux) or DataRescue DD (Windows). Once you have the image(s) besides DMDE you may want to try directly TESTDISK, if it is a "simple" partition issue it will likely solve it, otherwise you are back to use "file based" recovery (that most probably - just like PHOTOREC) will have filenames lost . There are post-processing tools for PHOTOREC output that help identify/verify (at least) the filetype and thus give the "right " extension, but the filename will be still lost. If you are familiar with Linux there may be other tools for fixing/repairing an EXT 2 or 3 filesystem. You also may want to have a go with this one (this should be the "simpler" to use - if the kind of damage is not too seious): http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-recovery/ jaclaz

JFYI, you may want to take note of the seven letter word, starting with "P" that submix8c sports in his profile (just on the right of "Group:", in dark red ) jaclaz

If I may, this: is not very "logical" . I mean, is the question: Or is it: If the second, then: http://cnt.lakefolks.com/ http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=1327 might do. Or am I missing something? jaclaz

Not only this is "obvious" but i is EXACTLY the reason WHY nowadays things come most often as "a bundle". Take my mobile phone bill as an example. I have (and rest assured it is the "best" - i.e. "cheaper" - possible "contract" available here given my needs) for a "flat monthly fee": 180 min conversation 500 sms 100 mms 2 Gb (or more, cannot remember right now) download 2 phone numbers (wife+office) unlimited conversation Typically I use 70% or 80% of the "third party conversations", 10% at the most SMS, 0% MMS and maybe 5% of the internet connection. I would gladly change this to a non-flat, IF there was something cheaper with no sms or mms nor fixed-amount of included Internet connection where I could have still the two unlimited phone numbers for a "base fee" and a decent fee for each sms and "third party conversation". Too bad that such tariffs/contracts do not exist (and this is by design). It's just like gambling (the casino will win), the telephone company pays (dearly) experts that look at the "effective" use of the phone by their customers and "design" bundles in such a way that the phone company will get more money in exchange of "nothing" (services NOT provided as they are not actually used/required by the customer). In a time where any non-moron user would like to pay whatever goods or service per item, every company is going for "bundles". I would like to take my car to the workshop and pay for the work that is actually needed (and done) on my car, but I am offered a "bundle" for three years of maintenance included in the price of the car. I would like to have just 5 or 6 (these are the ones I actually watch) Satellite TV channels, but I have to subscribe to a "bundle" with 20 of them, 10 of which I NEVER watch (and I would gladly pay per view in the rare cases where I want to watch something on the remaining 4 or 5). I want to book a hotel to stay in on a trip, but what I am offered is a "bundle" with a flight and with "all inclusive" arrangement (while I want to have just breakfast and be free to lunch and dine where I choose to). And NO, I don't want the "typical local dinner and music dance show" which is also included in the packet. This is another way to subtract knowledge to the public, by proposing "bundles" the value of the single items composing them is hidden (and eventually lost). In italian there is (rectius was) a science called "merceologia" that translates to English as "study of commodities" that has been effectively killed over the years by industry (basically removing the knowledge on how to make - or repair * yourself something that the industries produce) With Windows you have (though flawed) still some means of establishing how much is the value (cost) of the software and how much it is that of the hardware, but what about the good Apple guys? How much of the awful amount of money they ask (and BTW obtain) for a device such as the iPad is for the hardware and how much is for the iOS bundled with it? jaclaz

....or that you learn about how to do it.... I mean, it's not brain surgery, nor rocket science .... jaclaz

You were actually provided with some, but again having a software and learning HOW to use it, are two separate steps, the first one can be easily reached through "third party action" (the given suggestions) the latter only by your time and will (and curiosity). jaclaz