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Just for the record the "historical" forum/reference for Offline Sysprep is here: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showforum=43 @Atari800XL If you check this: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=22064 you should have a clear idea of what are the "missing pieces" of the puzzle in an ordinary sysprep and which ones Offline Sysprep provides. jaclaz

Well, noone talked of a battery, we were talking after having expressly said "(simplified, and in order to let you understand)" of a PC power supply connected to mains and about a brushless DC motor, which is both a resistive load and an inductive one (actually essentially the second), and unlike the "will burn", "very likely to burn" was used instead for example #4. Ohm's Law was cited AFTER the 4 examples and as an additional point, to exemplify how powering (within a bearable range) a device (still talking of an electric DC motor) connected to a PC power supply) with higher voltage will reduce the amount of current needed and how current absorption is linked to the voltage level supplied. In the case of an electric radiator suited for 220 V , actually norms are about 230 V with some slightly different tolerances: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_electricity#Standardization labeled 1000 W, we can use: W = V x I to get I=1000/230=~4.35 A and then use I = V / R to get that the resistance of the thingy is about 53 Ohms as 230/53=~4.34 But now, when we use the AA battery 1.5 V we have: I=1.5/4.34 =~0.35 A or 350 mA Since a normal AA battery (alkaline) has a capacity of roughly 2200 mAh, and without taking into consideration a number of factors, it will last 2200/350=~ 6h30 which, while NOT being accurate, it is still more accurate than "a few hours". jaclaz

Right. So, in the future, i.e. WHEN (after it will be profoundly modified in such ways that) it will actually work, we will use the NCI (hoping that in the meantime the geniuses will come out at least with a name for it ). NOW, it's the present, and we are going to use what we see fit NOW (the desktop). jaclaz

@vipejc 1. What are called "storage" are actually not drivers for the "storage devices" (which are "standard" and already included in any PE or Windows System), but drivers for the "storage controllers", i.e. what you may miss if you don't add it to the build could be the SATA/AHCI controller driver, the controller to which BOTH SATA hard disks and SATA CD/DVD drives are connected to. 2. I guess you might find some interest in reading this thread: it seems like you have not (yet ) very clear the difference between cloning, imaging and backup/restore. (don't worry it is seemingly very common because even the terminology used is often "vague" or "mixed"). Macrium Reflect is essentially an imaging solution (disk or volume/filesystem oriented). Robocopy is a robust file copy (file based). jaclaz

Naah, the real problem are the added costs of deciding NOT to standardize on a single modern browser or to support or allow the use of nonstandard browsers in the enterprise. and following few posts up to here: jaclaz

Because last time I checked in the MBR the Start LBA (sectors before the partition) and Num LBA (number of sectors in a partition entry) were made of 4 bytes. so, if you have first partition starting (say) at offset 2048 (0x00000800) and you set the number of sectors in it to 4294967295 (0xFFFFFFFF) you have already used all the addressable space. (still talking of 512 bytes/sector disks). And of course these guys here are liars according to your experience : http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/218619en http://www.uefi.org/learning_center/UEFI_MBR_Limits_v2.pdf http://www.hgst.com/tech/techlib.nsf/techdocs/D213A024C090CE9F862577D5002600FC/$file/FinalHiCap_2.2TB_TechBrief.pdf jaclaz

Sure , that depends on how much you fill the 16 Gb you are given of local storage. As everyone knows, 1's weight a little bit more than 0's (because the 0's are full of air). jaclaz

OP stopped replying becayse he went almost THREE MONTHS ago to a six month English course, expect a reply in around THREE MORE MONTHS...... jaclaz

The whole point that you (and now you are in good company with dencorso ) seemingly missed is that THERE IS NO NEED WHATEVER to completely wipe a disk if not in one single case, which is when you are going to give the disk away, and you fear for the data that may have remained on it. What it may be needed at the most when there is a "tricky" issue connected to detection of a disk or (and this is not the case) booting issues may be to wipe: 2 (two) bytes OR 512 (fivehundredandtwelve) bytes OR some initial sectors, at the very most 2048 of them Can you access more than 2.2 Tb on a MBR disk? jaclaz

You already answered yourself: For the record even *after* you actually asked for help, you started doing something that was NOT suggested to you INSTEAD of what was actually suggested. Noone suggested you to use DBAN, or to wipe the disk, what was suggested was to have a look at the disk from a Linux Live CD FIRST, and obviously report what happens with it. jaclaz

No need whatsoever to "DBAN" anything! You need (at the most) to write 512 bytes, NOT to wipe a whole disk . Wiping a disk takes TIME and DBAN is not faster than other solutions (actually it is slower than the internal SATA Erase) and it is a 3 TB drive, it would mean several hours (and no it is not very good for a disk to be in full use for hours). Most probably you could do with just the two bytes of the Magic Number 55AA, Of course the whole idea is to start form scratch (and losing any data currently on the disk). jaclaz

Yep , OK, but the issue is that that one is about a (known) issue with certain versions of the Intel Storage drivers. There are similar reports about nvidia drivers, but not anyone (that I can find) about the Asmedia controller/drivers that your motherboard seemingly has. Here is a link to the Nvidia link: https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/482988/pc-components/nforce-3tb-hdd-support-a-hdd-62-2-18tb-doesn-t-work-33-/1 in this case it seems more like an issue with having the Windows re-detect the hardware. About the Asrock 3Tb+ thingy it should be "irrelevant" and "out of the scope" as it is intended for 32 bit systems for all that I can get (and probably listed by mistake on the 7 x64 page by Asrock). What I would personally do would be to try booting a Linux LiveCD, such as PartedMagic: http://partedmagic.com/doku.php and verify that the disk is seen in it's entirety. In the case of the mentioned site it was the actual driver, by testing it under parted magic we can verify if this is the case, or if it is something else (like a "botched" or however not fully correct GPT partitioning "from factory" - possibly additionally combined with a "queer" driver). Not necessarily what is happening to you, but if the disk has been partitioned (as mostly seemingly happens) as 2.2 Tb GPT with an unallocated 746 Gb space, it is possible that somehow the "protective" MBR creates the mess (or part of it). Then (still what I personally would do) would be to simply 00 out first sector of the disk, reboot and see what happens when Disk Manager re-accesses it (it should prompt a request to "Initialize the disk"). Besides the above, do check that you have this hotfix in your installed 7: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/982018/en-us It may (or may not) be part of the story. jaclaz

The "queer" thing is the "746 Gb" which doesn't sound as any of the "common" or "known" values, like the 2.2 Tb or 2.199 Tb barrier. BUT, this: http://www.anandtech.com/show/3981/western-digital-caviar-green-3tb-and-my-book-essential-3tb-drives-reviewed/2 actually has a 746.52 Gb screenshot being the difference between the whole 3 Tb and the above mentioned 2.2 Tb barrier. Can you post a screenshot of Disk Manager on your machine? jaclaz

So that WHEN one of those will fail you will have even LESS chances to recover data from them? We add here to the existing "internal translation" and "G-list" possible issues also the SSD brand new ones, such as "wear leveling" and "garbage collecting". jaclaz

I guess it's a matter of meanings. Windows 8 in itself is nothing but a (hopefully bettered) Windows 7. The issue is it's NCI which is INCONVENIENT: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/inconvenient NOT particularly in meaning a., but in meanings b. and c. Additionally it is CUMBERSOME: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cumbersome in the sense of: In this case a new and cumbersome computer system. jaclaz

Before this thread becomes the usual Firefox vs. Opera, a couple words of warning to duffy98: The world is made of two kinds of people: those who use Opera (and SRware Iron from time to time ) all the others (using *any* other browser) The second kind (by far the larger majority, more than 95% of the people using a browser) will endless try to convince the very few in the first group that their Opera browser is inferior (for whatever reasons). The first kind will simply and silently keep on using Opera (and do things much faster and in a more secure way than the second group ). jaclaz

Casually a device that is engineered to actually cut fingers (not really, but similar enough) actually exists, it has a finely sharpened steel blade and it is powered by 4 AA batteries, so logically is in the same power range of less than 10 W. And (SCOOP! ) we have a movie of it! Watch attentively the movie and time the rate at which cuts are performed, and note ( around 0:59 ) the number of gears needed to transform the relatively high speed (and very low torque) of the motor to enough (slow) torque actually needed to cut the (boneless) "finger". Just in case: http://science.howstuffworks.com/transport/engines-equipment/gear.htm jaclaz

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I guess I could use the probabilities of bhplt having a DC at home to make a few trips around the universe with the Heart of Gold. jaclaz

In my experience I have seen people watching videos and people looking at end results, but noone ever learning or understanding anything from them (or from them alone, i.e. without additionally reading, studying, experimenting) You can replicate the examples shown in a video alright, and a video can well be a support for learning , but understanding principles or learning a computer language syntax from a video? jaclaz

Once set aside the bias and the pre-made thesis and conclusions (obvious since it was a commissioned study and not an independent one - should such thing as an independent survey/statistic exists), the issue is actually with numbers. Base is 113 people (too small to have any significance), but the actual "key" results are formed on the base of only 51 replies. Please note how in figure 3, 96% of the 113 have standardized on a "single web browser". Logically the 51% that DO NOT allow an alternative browser have NO way to know the costs connected on having it on the enterprise. As well the 13% that do allow for it but provide NO support for it have NO costs related to the support which is not provided. The 32% that do allow for it and provide support on a best-effort basis can be divided in two groups: the ones that are complete morons, offer support for this, have no idea of the costs of this "best-effort" basis and continue offering this support notwithstanding the possible financial damage (of unknown entity) they are making to the company the ones that are not complete morons, offer support for this, bear the costs of this "best-effort" basis and continue offering this support and allowing multi-browser as they found that these supplemental costs are trifling So we have from a minimum of (51%+13%+0%=64%) to a maximum of (51%+13%+32%=96%) of the interviewed people that cannot possibly know the costs involved in supporting multiple web browsers, leaving us with a range between 4% and 36% of people that might know these costs. But 51/113=45.13% replied to question 7, of these 10% replied "don't know" which reduces the actual "informed" base from 51 to 46. Still 46/113=40.7% (i.e. higher than the possible amount of people that might actually know these costs) Now let's read the Figure 7. We have 7 values in it, you can try to sum them every which way you want, but you can never get a total of 86%. If you sum the first five you get 4%+2%+14%+12%+45%=77% To get 87% (NOT 86% and yes, the overall total makes 101%) you have to sum to the above the last value of 10% (the few honest people that replied "I don't know") So we have that when you reply "Don't know" you are actually saying that your multi-browser strategy added significant costs. It is to note how the relative majority, 45%, actually replied "Less than 20% higher" while the next alternative voted by 14% was "No change". This swiftly means that if you actually had a multi-browser strategy AND you knew the attached costs AND you could express them in a percentage (of WHAT) of 1% or 2%, your vote would be taken as saying multi-browser strategy added significant costs. Please note how the question is worded "If you were to estimate ...." (this actually allows the large majority of people that as seen has no ways to know the actual costs to produce their estimation or guesses ). Figure 8 makes no sense whatsoever, as said only a part of the 51 people replying could have possibly these data, noone can possibly have them divided into the categories, and the actual unit of measure makes no sense. People were asked what were the costs related to internal web applications as a result of their multi-browser strategy (that 96% of the people have NOT, since they standardized on a single web browser) but how this relates to actual real word units of measure? If you spend additional US$ 10.000,00 to test a web app as a result of your firm multi-browser strategy, and this app is used by 10 (ten) people, you are actually spending US$ 1,000,00 per app per seat (and you are a complete moron ), if the app is used by your 10,000 employees, it makes a nice round US$1.00 per app per seat. They are not exactly the same "kind" of money . Whilst the question #7 had that "vague" wording, the question in #8 allows NOT estimates or guesses, it represents actual spent money (and as said at the very maximum only 36% - more likely much less than that - of the 113 interviewed, i.e. 40 people may have had spent any money on this) jaclaz

Does this mean that you hadn't the guts to inset a finger near the outer edge? jaclaz

You missed the part where Silverlight was the best way .... http://blogs.msdn.com/b/silverlight/archive/2010/09/01/the-future-of-silverlight.aspx jaclaz

Well you gave up : You need to pay double to enter the game again jaclaz

In an OTbOT (On Topic but Off Topic or Off Topic but On Topic, you choose) I would like to have some comments on this research, on it's accuracy and overall on the fact that Forrester research was actually paid for this: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36051 Particularly check Figures #7 and #8 on page 9 of the report (Figure #8 has to be read at the light of Figure #3 on page 5) Then check how people can read it: http://blogs.windows.com/ie/b/ie/archive/2012/12/13/ten-reasons-why-internet-explorer-10-is-best-for-business.aspx jaclaz