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In other words (actually the SAME ones ) . http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh825212.aspx i.e. it seems like nothing has changed to the procedure if not that you have to press the spacebar first. jaclaz

There are two "main" issues with your approach: "moving" a NT or 2K to new hardware is - while doable - NOT easy (and the "source" needs to be "prepared"), installing them from scratch would most probably be less complex and conversely faster (and you still may have issues with the drivers in the sense that you have to find the appropriate drivers for that "newish laptop" for NT and 2K) what you are experiencing is a "normal" 0x0000007b STOP ERROR caused by the lack of an appropriate SATA/AHCI driver, but apart from it do NOT assume that other "base" drivers such as chipset and video drivers will be "easy-peasy" (still in the case of "adapting an existing install to new hardware) To get further help it is essential that you post the specification of the given "newish laptop". For NT, if the hardware is compatible with UNIVBE and UNIATA, then you may have a chance, otherwise finding a set of appropriate drivers for a "newish" latop are very, very low. For 2K, if the hardware is compatible with UNIVBE and UNIATA, then you may have a chance, otherwise finding a set of appropriate drivers for a "newish" latop are - though a bit higher than with NT, still very low. jaclaz

The Log you posted seems OK (obvious, but I mean that there seems to me like there is no particular action carried by WinsetupFromUSB in the sense of "out of ordinary"). This is the "only" (BTW normal) change made to the stick: 2013/01/15 13:48:45- Checking if grub4dos is installed properly 2013/01/15 13:48:45- grub4dos BS/MBR and files are NOT installed properly 2013/01/15 13:48:45- Installing grub4dos BS/MBR and files it is *possible* that the corresponding actions in USB_MultiBoot_10 were not carried or not carried successfully (as an example - NOT necessarily applying specifically to your case) because of different paths in the 64 bit version or due to some of the "queer" behaviour of windows 7 with UAC, disk protection and what not. If Wimb happens to pass by, he may have a more appropriate idea of what may have happened or be able to suggest you a specific troubleshooting procedure, it's quite a bit of time since I used USB_MultiBoot_10, but I remember discussing about the use of a tee command to have steps logged as well, check the documentation, your (failed) attempt with USB_MultiBoot_10 should have also produced a log. USB_MultiBoot_10 and WinsetupFromUSB are NOT the "same" tool in a command line and GUI version, they are distinct project, both born from common grounds but that took separate "evolution paths" over the time. Though the basics are the same and info is migrated back and forth between the two apps the are different in the sense that they may use different strategies/implementations to reach the same goal. Beside these two "main" approaches/apps, there are more, just check the stickies , as I see it, unless you want to take the RED pill : since we have now several approaches you could otherwise just stick with the one that succeeds. jaclaz

OT (off topic) but OT (on topic), about this: http://allthingsd.com/20130115/tell-me-again-how-surface-is-the-tablet-consumers-really-want/ When on my "real life" job I do estimate *something* (building/construction projects), I rarely miss the target by anything larger than 20% on preliminary estimates, it never happened in my life to make a wrong estimation by more than 10% and normally the difference between final estimation and final costs is within +/- 5%. I do understand how estimating sales (or if you prefer forecast them) allows for larger margins of error, but going from an estimated two millions to a "now estimated" one million that another "magician" estimates as 700,000 and that another one "now estimates" as 500,000-600,000 but that "just last month estimated" as 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 is crazy. You cannot call them "estimations", "result of throwing a couple of dice and multiplying result by 100,000" seems like a much more accurate description of the procedure they used (and are using). Please remember that set apart the specific nonsense about the Surface RT these are "decision makers" from very influential firms , these are the guys that decide the rating of a country or of a bank/financial institutions, they are those that indirectly influence the value of the money you have in your pocket or the value of your home, or the value of the stocks you may possess . The word of the day is obviously: jaclaz

Hmmm, I have quite a few friends that would accept a beer (or more than one ) but none that would stand listening to clipped, capped music, though @Phaenius Yes, there was a (spammer's) post that was deleted by some of the Admins/Mods. (the good news being that you may have auditory hallucination , but not yet visual ones ) jaclaz

Good. Let's see it from another point of view, "responsiveness" This thread has being going for over one month and you still have to try the first thing that was suggested to you. Actually TWO things were suggested: and you did only one of the two, which doesn't make it a 50% achievement as unless BOTH are tried the result of just one of the two is meaningless. That suggestion is more than one month old (and has not yet been put into practice), some nit-picking and resisting later, another suggestion was given: (together with the SAME item #2 of the original suggestion) This other suggestion after more than 20 days is now "scheduled" in a (hopefully near) future as "I will clean the card.". To re-cap, three PRELIMINARY, BASIC, NEEDED, RECOMMENDED steps: try another OS on that PC <- hopefully done clean the sound card (and the innards of the PC, etc.) <- you will do this before or later test the sound card on another system <- you will do this before or later (hopefully in the course of 2013) Mind you this thread is also (at least in some parts) a "fun" one, and it is a good occasion to exchange ideas and to "chat" a bit, but a troubleshooting procedure tends to be - generally speaking - very different, like: suggestions made put into practice (immediately or however in the shortest possible time) suggestions made being NOT each time and BEFORE being put into practice being nit-picked over and over results from suggestions (put into practice) being reported new suggestions (hopefully) made based on the results of the ones put into practice (loop to 1 until problem hopefully solved) Now, a very large time allowance to put into practice the above three PRELIMINARY, BASIC, NEEDED, RECOMMENDED steps is (at the very most) half a day, that is something I would personally do (ALL three of them) one evening after dinner and before going to bed, and if needed, complete the next morning early. I would venture to affirm that the fact that after more than one month you have not yet done these three PRELIMINARY, BASIC, NEEDED, RECOMMENDED steps makes you appear as not particularly "responsive" or however not acting in a "timely" manner. jaclaz

No Forum Rule broken nor anything really missed, rest assured. You found a good "base" resource for your issue, but as often happens your report is a bit "vague". The referenced thread lists a number of different possible solutions, but you cannot put them all in a "I tried everything statement" (BTW one of the suggestion there was to try the GUI WinsetupfromUSB which you obviously did not try) and you seem like having, besides the "everything" in that thread triead also "every" other partitioning/formatting utility. JFYI you are using two of the worst (not "generally" but "specifically") possible environments, WIndows 7 AND the 64 bit version of it. My suggestions are (in this order): FORGET (temporarily) about USB_multiboot_10.cmd and try INSTEAD WinsetupfromUSBwithGUI (please remember how you have a GOAL and that the path through which you can reach it is fundamentally irrelevant) If the above works, good if it does not, post the log of it (it may help to troubleshoot anyway your issue as it will contain a number of info about the environment in which you run it) and try again with USB_multiboot_10.cmd CHOOSE one of the two USB sticks you have available (the smaller 2 Gb makes "more sense" for this project, though there is no real reason why the 16 Gb should not work) DETAIL which EXACT (among the several suggestions on the related thread you have actually implemented (see list below) The related thread lists about the possible causes/solutions (among possibly others that I missed at first glance): UAC on/off FixPath.exe change in .cmd VER | find "6.1." > nul jaclaz

@johnhc PLoP has NO support for Firewire. @negatiiv Yes, you can make a USB "kicker". (IF you are talking of a PE 1.x - i.e. XP/2003 based) Unfortunately there is not much experience with Firewire around so your mileage may vary. Start by getting the basics of the idea here: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=21242 the procedure is called either "XP Kansas City Shuffle" or "fake signature method" (googling for these will give you more related results). The main issue is/will be the start setting for the firewire related drivers/services. Doing the same for a later PE 2.x ( Vista based) or a PE 3.x (Windows 7 based) it may as well be possible, but I presume only for a "flat" build, I don't remember any previous posts/threads about these, in any case if a machine has only USB 1.1 support in BIOS or has actually only USB 1.1 chips it is so old that a later than PE 1.x would run so slow that it wouldn't be practical (slow processor and most probably a limited amount of RAM). Easiest would probably be to do a test with UBCD4win . http://www.ubcd4win.com/ The UBCD4win forum is down but the app by PC_user is available: http://web.archive.org/web/20121027133727/http://ubcd4win.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=11375 From here: http://web.archive.org/web/20120610192807/http://www.ezpcfix.net/ubcd4win/UBUSB.exe jaclaz

Not that by assuming (and assuming, and assuming and NOT trying anything suggested) you are getting very far.... .... it could be some crazy electrons that decide to get on the surface instead of being channeled into the cables BTW, for all we know submix8c has perfectly working sound and needs not to "get anywhere"..... Also, you underrate the kind of satisfaction that you will feel if you just §@ç#ing clean/inspect all the components as told you n times by everyone here and the problem doesn't get solved. Just imagine the satisfaction of proving everyone wrong jaclaz

Well, the use of "university" in the name is - to say the least - misleading. Some of the most relevant FAQ's from: http://www.ituniversityonline.com/faq/ Basically they help you (hopefully) to prepare you for third party (like Cisco, MS, etc.) certification exams. Their NY office (and "main" address) being apparently in a servcorp suite is not the best thing in the world IMHO when it comes to "reliability", but the world is now mostly "virtual" so you can never say: http://www.servcorp.com/en/locations/new-york/new-york-city-executive-suites/ http://sccom.powerfulcms.com/executive-suites-virtual-offices/united-states/new-york-city/1330-avenue-americas-new-york-ny On the other hand, if you can actually sell something at a face value of 3 or 4 K$ I doubt you would put it on Groupon for 99 bucks http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/268156-too-good-to-be-true?page=1 http://www.groupon.com/deals/it-university-online-la As well having a site through godaddy/Domains By Proxy, LLC and being registered on september 2012 http://www.whois.com/whois/ituniversityonline.com is not the "best" evidence of having 21 years of experience.... I would not call it a "scam", but giving them 3K$ on that info is IMHO a tadbit "adventurous" (the 99 bucks on groupon may do to have an idea on how it works, though personally I would by a few good Cisco books with that money) jaclaz

.... and I thought they were complimentary hankies for tears and sweat.... jaclaz

...and strangely enough the start-up cited her: has survived more than 6 months jaclaz

The Japanese are ahead of us, obviously, as you can use this to touch your screen but it is also useful as a TV remote: http://technabob.com/blog/2012/03/06/terebi-no-te-magic-wand-remote-control/ jaclaz

Basically on a topic over which you have no competence nor experience whatever, you assume your beliefs (which may well be applicable to a number of other products/procedures/fields, of course ) on marketing hype over the advice given by a self-proclaimed expert stranger on the internet? This is very good . You don't want to clean your electronic devices? Good. Then don't do it. You want to clean some contacts with "Universal lotion"? Good, then just do it. As long as you don't whine, that's fine. You were worried about those contacts were corroded. A cycle of treatment to hopefully re-condition them as much as possible and prolong their life was suggested to you, of course a similar (other make/brand) cycle of treatment will have the same or a very similar effect. One only of the steps in the cycle won't have the same effect. One only of the steps in the cycle additionally using a different (possibly completely unsuited for it) substance won't as well work and, as a matter of fact may make things worse. Do whatever you see fit. jaclaz

Sure , it's your contacts that are corroded. Please look in a dictionary corroded: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/corroded and oxidized: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/oxidized they are seemingly NOT synonyms of dirty: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dirty You may also want to try some turmeric on them : http://www.peoplespharmacy.com/2011/08/08/curry-spice-for-cuts-and-bruises/ jaclaz

Yep, but I guess it would be trivial *somehow* to "filter out" any "touch" that is larger than a pen point. and in any case, if you try it, writing with your hand "suspended" but with your elbow "pivoting" on the desk surface (still no pun intended) or held against your body is not that bad. I just measured my actual workplace. I have a desk with a (telescopic/extending from underneath the desk) keyboard and mouse holder. Between my belly and the keyboard center there around 30 cm (and I can comfortably type with my elbows resting on the chair arm rests). There are almost 90 cm between my eyes and the 22" LCD Screen. <- this is NOT negotiable, as that is where my eyes focus correctly Measuring my arm from the tip of the index finger to my eyes it I get around 70 cm (and I am 1.84 m tall). This means that there are around 20 cm between the tip of my index finger with fully extended arm and the LCD surface and to touch it I have to lean forward quite a bit. I presume that a short-sighted monkey or orangutan, thanks to the combined effect of the LCD nearer and longer arms, might find touch screen a comfortable approach. I do not. BTW, it is tradition that every time the mentioned monkey or orangutan manages to touch the right coloured biggish tile, a banana or some nuts or juice are given to it. I would become too fat . jaclaz

I find difficult reading the specs from a (BTW lousy) picture of the spray can. BUT the actual info from the manufacturer: http://www.agchemia.pl/OnlineShop.aspx Clears how that is as well a three product cycle: de-oxidation <- CRC KONTACT 60 or AG KONTACT S cleaning <- CRC KONTACT WL or AG KONTACT U protect <- CRC KONTACT 61 or AG ??? jaclaz

Personally, and as said, I have had very good experience with using pens as a replacement for the mouse. But this OBVIOUSLY ONLY applies to a "tablet like almost horizontally held" device (like my good ol' Concerto and to my good ol' Sony P910i) or to "traditional" graphic tablets, NOT on the example illustrated in the "Strike Two". If you need to extend your arm and "write" on a vertical or almost vertical surface, such as one may be used to on a traditional blackboard you will soon get tired (and BTW in case of OCR of the handwriting the result will be most likely much worse, as when you write normally on a piece of paper your wrist/hand lies upon the desk and it is not "suspended in mid-air). jaclaz

JFYI: http://www.crcind.com/wwwcrc/tds/TKC3%20KONTAKT60.PDF http://www.crcind.com/wwwcrc/tds/TKC3%20KONTAKTWL.PDF http://www.crcind.com/wwwcrc/tds/TKC3%20KONTAKT61.PDF jaclaz

Here: http://www.robvanderwoude.com/amb_rebootnt.php jaclaz

That guide, though good, is NOT the recommended one, which is this one (as sticked AND pointed to in the READ ME FIRST): http://www.mapleleafmountain.com/seagatebrick.html which is a more complete one. If you need to use a piece of cardboard to press down the PCB to obtain spin up it means any (or more than one) of three things: you used the cardboard on the head contacts AND the cardboard was a bit too thick the head contacts were not properly cleaned you failed to re-tighten appropriately the screws near the contacts The workaround you used is potentially a VERY dangerous one , what you had was a "bad" contact that you "patched" (possibly only temporarily) by pressing a bit on the PCB. That PCB should be disassembled, contacts cleaned and the "springy effect" of the contacts on the disk be verified, then all screws re-tightened firmly before further use of the disk. jaclaz

According to this http://www.whatsmydns.net/ : http://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/www.ronuk.org www.ronuk.org is OK *everywhere* but in India (and resolves correctly to 81.102.255.73) whilst: http://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/ronuk.org resolves *everywhere* included India to 174.129.88.121 which is one of those "placeholder" (vaguely suspect) sites: http://whois.domaintools.com/174.129.88.121 This however happens only for "A" records. It is possible that you have not set the DNS record correctly. The DNS record A name should be for the name WITHOUT the www. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fully_qualified_domain_name And the www is an Alias or CNAME, example: https://support.eapps.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/292/45/eapps-portal---dns-manager Your provider (and their "control panel") may use different approach, however. Check also through this: http://www.preshweb.co.uk/cgi-bin/dns-propagation-tracker.pl jaclaz

Which posts? This thread? Why Winpe 2.x? (2.x means "Vista based") I don't think that you can easily "re-use" an already built PE, you should build your own one. What particular thing do you not understand/find missing? jaclaz

Thanks jaclaz

Of course no. Being a "good" app it creates a Q10.ini file for the settings (in my case - NO sound support on my system - the nuisance is that by default - at first run without the .ini - the Sound is "on" and throws an error trying vainly to create a sound with key press). As well on my monitor the text size by default is a little small and I don't particularly like Courier (again the default). But it's just a matter of Ctrl+P and change the settings (and remembering, if "moving" the .exe to also move the .ini with it). jaclaz